Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity
Abstract Background Gender differences have been found to be associated with individuals’ pleasure. Cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity might play an important role between gender differences and pleasure. This current study is to explore the mediating role of cognitive flexibility and...
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| description | Abstract Background Gender differences have been found to be associated with individuals’ pleasure. Cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity might play an important role between gender differences and pleasure. This current study is to explore the mediating role of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity in the relationship between gender differences and pleasure. Method In this cross-sectional study, a sample of 1107 full-time university students from five colleges in Tianjin, Chinese mainland was investigated by questionnaire. All participants completed the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPs), the Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), and the Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire (BEQ). Results The results of independent T-test suggested that females reported better emotional expressivity, anticipatory pleasure and consummatory pleasure than males, whereas males had better cognitive flexibility than females. Using bootstrapping approach revealed that the partially mediation effects of cognitive flexibility on gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure, and that of emotional expressivity on gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure. Results of this present study stated that cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity play a partial mediating role in explaining gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure. Conclusion Females had higher anticipatory and consummatory pleasure because they tend to use emotional regulation strategy to express their emotion. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da29bde9bd894e6ba1331cf07b6d73692022-12-22T00:19:33ZengBMCBMC Psychiatry1471-244X2022-05-012211810.1186/s12888-022-03945-9Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivityChunyu Wang0Zhihao Zhang1James Allen Wiley2Tingting Fu3Jin Yan4Xiangya Nursing School, Central South UniversityXiangya Nursing School, Central South UniversityInstitute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF School of MedicineXiangya Nursing School, Central South UniversityXiangya Nursing School, Central South UniversityAbstract Background Gender differences have been found to be associated with individuals’ pleasure. Cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity might play an important role between gender differences and pleasure. This current study is to explore the mediating role of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity in the relationship between gender differences and pleasure. Method In this cross-sectional study, a sample of 1107 full-time university students from five colleges in Tianjin, Chinese mainland was investigated by questionnaire. All participants completed the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPs), the Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), and the Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire (BEQ). Results The results of independent T-test suggested that females reported better emotional expressivity, anticipatory pleasure and consummatory pleasure than males, whereas males had better cognitive flexibility than females. Using bootstrapping approach revealed that the partially mediation effects of cognitive flexibility on gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure, and that of emotional expressivity on gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure. Results of this present study stated that cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity play a partial mediating role in explaining gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure. Conclusion Females had higher anticipatory and consummatory pleasure because they tend to use emotional regulation strategy to express their emotion.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03945-9Gender differencesAnticipatory pleasureConsummatory pleasureCognition flexibilityEmotional expressivity |
| spellingShingle | Chunyu Wang Zhihao Zhang James Allen Wiley Tingting Fu Jin Yan Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity BMC Psychiatry Gender differences Anticipatory pleasure Consummatory pleasure Cognition flexibility Emotional expressivity |
| title | Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity |
| title_full | Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity |
| title_fullStr | Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity |
| title_short | Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity |
| title_sort | gender differences in pleasure the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity |
| topic | Gender differences Anticipatory pleasure Consummatory pleasure Cognition flexibility Emotional expressivity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03945-9 |
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