Robles Theodore F, Kane Heidi S
University of California, Los Angeles.
J Pers. 2014 Dec;82(6):515-27. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12052. Epub 2013 Aug 27.
Attachment theory provides a conceptual framework for understanding intersections between personality and close relationships in adulthood. Moreover, attachment has implications for stress-related physiology and physical health. We review work on normative processes and individual differences in the attachment behavioral system, as well as their associations with biological mechanisms related to health outcomes. We highlight the need for more basic research on normative processes and physiology and discuss our own research on individual differences in attachment and links with physiology. We then describe a novel perspective on attachment and physiology, wherein stress-related physiological changes may also be viewed as supporting the social-cognitive and emotion regulatory functions of the attachment system through providing additional energy to the brain, which has implications for eating behavior and health. We close by discussing our work on individual differences in attachment and restorative processes, including sleep and skin repair, and by stressing the importance of developing biologically plausible models for describing how attachment may impact chronic illness.
依恋理论为理解成年期人格与亲密关系之间的交叉点提供了一个概念框架。此外，依恋对与压力相关的生理机能和身体健康也有影响。我们回顾了依恋行为系统中的规范过程和个体差异的研究，以及它们与健康结果相关的生物机制的联系。我们强调了对规范过程和生理学进行更多基础研究的必要性，并讨论了我们自己关于依恋个体差异及其与生理学联系的研究。然后，我们描述了一种关于依恋与生理学的新观点，即与压力相关的生理变化也可以被视为通过为大脑提供额外能量来支持依恋系统的社会认知和情绪调节功能，这对饮食行为和健康有影响。我们最后讨论了我们关于依恋个体差异和恢复过程（包括睡眠和皮肤修复）的研究，并强调了建立生物学上合理的模型以描述依恋如何影响慢性病的重要性。
