Exploring the Social Network Relationships on Hostility Behaviors

How to determine who is the one that you are willing to express your emotion? Emotion expression and behavior responses are highly related to the subjective judgment of the target user, especially the negative emotions (e.g., anger/ hostility). This study is to explore how the hostility dimensions are distributed in various relationship types, including power-dependences, closeness distance, mutual expectations, and cooperation/competition. This study used semi-structured in-depth interviews for a six-minute anger recall task that asked the participants to recall and report an anger event that happened in the past six months. There were 75 participants recruited to attend this study. The results indicate the dynamic social network types of power-dependences, closeness distance, and cooperation/competition are key factors to impact negative emotional behaviors and determine the hostility behaviors significantly. Although mutual expectations could also leads to higher anger level, but there is no significant difference on statistic analysis.