Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Psychother Res. 2012;22(6):656-72. doi: 10.1080/10503307.2012.700871. Epub 2012 Jul 4.
The present study investigated the relationship between baseline levels of affect integration and the magnitude of change during and after open-ended psychotherapy. Affect integration reflects the capacity for accessing and utilizing the adaptive properties of affects for personal adjustment, along with the more general capability of tolerating and regulating affective activation. It is thus a capacity with relevance for the postulated mechanisms of change in various treatment modalities. Overall, the results indicated that patients with more severe problems in affect integration had larger improvements in symptoms, interpersonal and personality problems in open-ended treatment than those with less severe problems. This was also the case when examining the predictive effects of the integration of specific affects on changes in interpersonal relatedness. It was indicated that increasing problems with the integration of discrete affects were associated with distinct patterns of change in different interpersonal problem domains.
本研究调查了基线情感整合水平与开放式心理治疗期间和之后变化程度之间的关系。情感整合反映了为个人调整而获取和利用情感的适应属性的能力，以及更普遍的耐受和调节情感激活的能力。因此，它是各种治疗模式中假设的变化机制的相关能力。总体而言，研究结果表明，在开放式治疗中，情感整合问题更严重的患者的症状、人际关系和人格问题的改善幅度大于问题较轻的患者。当检查特定情感整合对人际关系变化的预测作用时，也是如此。研究表明，离散情感整合问题的增加与不同人际关系问题领域的变化模式相关。
