「三項関係情動」の生起メカニズムを探る : 共感的喜び・妬みの状況要因について

Abstract

For past few decades, many psychologists have been keenly interested in human emotions. Recently, a lot of special attention has been paid to the emotions that people experience when they aren't directly related to some events in terms of their own interests. In daily life, we often experience some emotions as observers when some events happen to others and not to ourselves. How might you feel if you heard of your friends', your parents' or your rivals' good news? You might be delighted with it, or you might be envious of it or occasionally, you might have some ambivalent and complicated feelings. In this study, we focused on the emotions that people experience when some good events happen to others, i.e. "triangle emotions" (the emotions occurring in the triangle of self, other, and event). We constructed original questionnaire items and by using them asked 348 college students (average age: 19.8, males 172, females 176) to describe and rate about the three kinds of triangle emotions (empathic joy, envy, and ambivalent/complicated feeling) that they might experience if some successful events happened to someone around them and the characteristics of the situations that might bring about each emotion. As a result, we found that the qualities of such triangle emotions were related to the person experiencing the emotion, that person's relationships to the others, meanings of the events for themselves and the balance of well-being statuses between them and the others before the event-occurrences.