Relationship between Uncertainty Response and Future-oriented Coping: The Mediation of Anticipated Emotion

doi:10.13209/j.0479-8023.2015.025

Abstract

Abstract: To explore the mediation of anticipated emotion between uncertainty response and future-oriented coping, study 1 was designed to assess the relationship among uncertainty response, anticipated emotion and future-oriented coping, and the influence of uncertainty response to future-oriented behavior (financing) was investigated in study 2. Study 1 was a cross-sectional study, with 204 people included. Uncertainty Response Scale, Questionnaire for Anticipated Emotion and Future-oriented Inventory were used to discover the tendency. Study 2 was a longitudinal research. All scales were sent to subjects in twice and Future-oriented Inventory was replaced by the Intention Scale of Financing, with an interval of 2 months. 113 data were collected in this study. Uncertainty response, anticipated emotion and future-oriented coping were related to each other. Bootstrap was used to confirm the mediation of anticipated emotion. Anticipated emotion was found mediated between emotional uncertainty and future-oriented coping only in study 1, but the mediation of positive emotion between cognitive uncertainty/desire for change and future-oriented coping was found in both studies. Uncertainty response (cognitive uncertainty & desire for change) affects future-oriented coping intention through positive anticipated emotion.

Key words: uncertainty response, anticipated emotion, future-oriented coping, financing

摘要： 探讨不确定性反应对未来取向应对的影响以及预期情绪的中介作用。研究1 探索不确定性反应、预期情绪和未来取向应对三者之间的关系, 研究2 探索不确定性反应和预期情绪对未来取向应对行为(理财行为)的影响。研究1 为横向研究, 不同行业204 人填写不确定性反应量表、预期情绪量表和未来取向应对量表。研究2 为纵向研究, 时间间隔为2 个月, 时间点1 发放不确定性反应量表, 时间点2 发放预期情绪量表和未来取向行为(理财行为)意愿量表, 两个时间点收取有效问卷113 份。不确定性反应的3 个维度、预期情绪和未来取向应对之间都显著相关。横向研究中用Bootstrap 检验发现预期情绪在不确定性情绪和未来取向应对关系中的双中介作用, 以及积极预期情绪在不确定性认知、期待改变和未来取向应对关系中的中介作用。纵向研究中用Bootstrap 检验发现积极预期情绪在不确定性认知、改变意图和未来取向行为(理财行为) 的中介作用, 预期情绪在不确定性情绪和未来取向应对行为之间的中介作用不显著。不确定性认知通过积极预期情绪促进未来取向应对增加, 期待改变通过积极预期情绪促进未来取向应对的增加。

关键词: 不确定性反应, 预期情绪, 未来取向应对, 理财

FENG Ying;GAN Yiqun;LIU Zhixiao;NIE Hanying;CHEN Weiyi. Relationship between Uncertainty Response and Future-oriented Coping: The Mediation of Anticipated Emotion[J]. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, DOI: 10.13209/j.0479-8023.2015.025.

冯莹;甘怡群;柳之啸;聂晗颖;陈炜夷. 不确定性反应风格和未来取向应对的关系探究: 预期情绪的中介作用[J]. 北京大学学报（自然科学版）, DOI: 10.13209/j.0479-8023.2015.025.

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