title: The lack of dominance and choice deferral: Choosing to defer to cope with the feeling of being out of control.
abstract: The present study aimed to explore whether emotional dominance can also account for choice deferral. This research manipulated emotional dominance through the difference in attractiveness among current alternatives in Experiment 1 and the readability of fonts for describing current options in Experiment 2, to investigate the role of dominance in choice deferral. The results revealed that increasingly submissive decision environments were related to more choice of deferral options. Mediation analyses indicated that dominance could mediate the effects of experimental manipulations on choice deferral, and that the actual choice of a deferral option was associated with more increase in dominance of retrospective emotion. The results indicate that dominance plays an important role in choice deferral and that choosing to defer can minimize the explicit confrontation of being out of control.
authors.affiliation: a Hunan Normal University.
authors.forename: Xiaoming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: a Hunan Normal University.
authors.forename: Qiuling
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: a Hunan Normal University.
authors.forename: Guoqing
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012930:Social Dominance; D035501:Uncertainty; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Choice deferral; PAD emotional state model; dominance; emotion-focused coping