From defense to reconstruction: The hostility-meaning dual-path model of how observing others’ adversity influences self-negative disclosure

分类： 心理学 >> 社会心理学 提交时间： 2025-06-08

Zhang,Xiaoying Huang,Tian Wang,Yuting Hou,Zhijun

摘要： Objective: This study explored the mechanism by which observing peers’ adverse experiences influences distress disclosure of negative information through two progressive studies.Methods: Study 1 (N=218) constructed a moderated mediation model to analyze the relationships among stress, self-esteem, hostility traits, and disclosure. Study 2 (N=536) employed a situational experiment to test a chain mediation effect of "stress→meaning in life→distress disclosure," supplemented by multigroup analysis of path coefficient differences.Results: Study 1 showed stress directly inhibited disclosure (β=-0.37, pLimitations: The moderating effects of cultural values on the mechanism of adverse circumstance perception were not examined in this study.Conclusions: This research first uncovered the adaptive function of downward comparison and the mediating boundary of meaning reconstruction, expanding social comparison theory’s application scenarios. It provides a dual-path model for psychological interventions in failure education, based on stress transformation and meaning construction. Future studies are recommended to investigate cultural value moderations.

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