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Emotionale Ambivalenz, Körperbeschwerden, Depressivität und soziale Interaktion

Untersuchungen zur deutschen Version des “Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire“ (AEQ-G18)

Published Online:October 11, 2006https://doi.org/10.1026/0943-8149.14.4.158

Abstract

Zusammenfassung. Es wurde eine deutsche Version (AEQ-G18) des Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire (AEQ) von King und Emmons (1990) mit 18 Items erarbeitet. In drei voneinander unabhängigen Studien wurden korrelative Zusammenhänge zwischen emotionaler Ambivalenz, Krankheitsverhalten, Depressivität und sozialer Unterstützung untersucht. In der ersten Studie ergab die Faktorenanalyse der übersetzten AEQ-Items eine Faktorenstruktur mit zwei Faktoren: Kompetenzambivalenz und Effektambivalenz. Kompetenzambivalenz bezieht sich auf Zweifel und Unsicherheiten hinsichtlich der Fähigkeit positive Emotionen zu zeigen, und Effektambivalenz erfasst Befürchtungen über die Auswirkungen von negativ emotionaler Expressivität. In allen Studien (mit Stichproben aus der Allgemeinbevölkerung, von Studenten und von Patienten der Allgemeinmedizin) korrelierten Körpersymptome, Depressivität und soziale Unterstützung differenziert mit beiden Ambivalenzfaktoren des AEQ-G18. Diese Zusammenhänge schwächten sich jedoch nach Herauspartialisierung von Neurotizismus ab.


Emotional ambivalence, illness behavior, depression, and social interaction: Investigations for the German version of the “Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire” (AEQ-G18)

Abstract. A new 18-item German version of the Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire (AEQ, King & Emmons, 1990) was developed, the AEQ-G18. The connections between emotional ambivalence, illness behaviour, depression, and social support were examined in three separate studies. In the first study, a factor analysis of the translated AEQ-items revealed a factor structure involving two factors: one concerning ambivalence over the ability to show mainly positive emotions (competence ambivalence), and one concerning the ambivalence over the consequences of mainly negative emotions (effect ambivalence). In all studies (whose samples were: the general population, students, and general practitioner patients), reported physical symptoms, depression symptoms and the lack of social support were related to emotional ambivalence. However, this relation was less strong after controlling for neuroticism.

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