Motives for the Acceptance of the Social Sharing of Positive and Negative Emotions and Perceived Motives of the Narrator for Sharing the Emotional Episode

This study aimed to highlight the individual’s motives for accepting the social sharing of emotions of a person as well as the motives perceived by the individual for the other’s sharing. The 81 participants first retrieved an actual situation from their memory in which they had listened to a person...

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Main Authors:	Gérald Delelis, Véronique Christophe
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Ubiquity Press 2016-09-01
Series:	International Review of Social Psychology
Subjects:	social affiliation, emotions, motives
Online Access:	https://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/4

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spelling	doaj-cc40e537d2c8467691e88a9c468b764e2020-11-24T21:00:31ZengUbiquity PressInternational Review of Social Psychology2397-85702016-09-012919910410.5334/irsp.417Motives for the Acceptance of the Social Sharing of Positive and Negative Emotions and Perceived Motives of the Narrator for Sharing the Emotional EpisodeGérald Delelis0Véronique Christophe1SCALab, CNRS UMR 9193, Université de Lille 3SCALab, CNRS UMR 9193, Université de Lille 3This study aimed to highlight the individual’s motives for accepting the social sharing of emotions of a person as well as the motives perceived by the individual for the other’s sharing. The 81 participants first retrieved an actual situation from their memory in which they had listened to a person who had experienced a negative or positive emotional episode and, secondly, they freely described these motives. A semantic categorization showed that the motives for accepting a person’s social sharing are mainly the desire to provide the narrator with proof of social links and support; the perceived motives for the other’s social sharing are mainly a supposed need to vent and to strengthen social links. The discussion makes suggestions for future studies in the field of emotion communication.https://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/4social affiliation, emotions, motives
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spellingShingle	Gérald Delelis Véronique Christophe Motives for the Acceptance of the Social Sharing of Positive and Negative Emotions and Perceived Motives of the Narrator for Sharing the Emotional Episode International Review of Social Psychology social affiliation, emotions, motives
author_facet	Gérald Delelis Véronique Christophe
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title	Motives for the Acceptance of the Social Sharing of Positive and Negative Emotions and Perceived Motives of the Narrator for Sharing the Emotional Episode
title_short	Motives for the Acceptance of the Social Sharing of Positive and Negative Emotions and Perceived Motives of the Narrator for Sharing the Emotional Episode
title_full	Motives for the Acceptance of the Social Sharing of Positive and Negative Emotions and Perceived Motives of the Narrator for Sharing the Emotional Episode
title_fullStr	Motives for the Acceptance of the Social Sharing of Positive and Negative Emotions and Perceived Motives of the Narrator for Sharing the Emotional Episode
title_full_unstemmed	Motives for the Acceptance of the Social Sharing of Positive and Negative Emotions and Perceived Motives of the Narrator for Sharing the Emotional Episode
title_sort	motives for the acceptance of the social sharing of positive and negative emotions and perceived motives of the narrator for sharing the emotional episode
publisher	Ubiquity Press
series	International Review of Social Psychology
issn	2397-8570
publishDate	2016-09-01
description	This study aimed to highlight the individual’s motives for accepting the social sharing of emotions of a person as well as the motives perceived by the individual for the other’s sharing. The 81 participants first retrieved an actual situation from their memory in which they had listened to a person who had experienced a negative or positive emotional episode and, secondly, they freely described these motives. A semantic categorization showed that the motives for accepting a person’s social sharing are mainly the desire to provide the narrator with proof of social links and support; the perceived motives for the other’s social sharing are mainly a supposed need to vent and to strengthen social links. The discussion makes suggestions for future studies in the field of emotion communication.
topic	social affiliation, emotions, motives
url	https://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/4
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Motives for the Acceptance of the Social Sharing of Positive and Negative Emotions and Perceived Motives of the Narrator for Sharing the Emotional Episode

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