Watkins Laura E, DiLillo David, Maldonado Rosalita C
Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Psychol Addict Behav. 2015 Sep;29(3):653-63. doi: 10.1037/adb0000074. Epub 2015 Apr 6.
This study draws on Finkel and Eckhardt's (2013) I³ framework to examine the interactive effects of 2 emotion regulation strategies-anger rumination (an impellance factor) and reappraisal (an inhibition factor), and alcohol intoxication (a disinhibition factor)-on intimate partner aggression (IPA) perpetration as measured with an analogue aggression task. Participants were 69 couples recruited from a large Midwestern university (total N = 138). Participants' trait rumination and reappraisal were measured by self-report. Participants were randomized individually to an alcohol or placebo condition, then recalled an anger event while using 1 of 3 randomly assigned emotion regulation conditions (rumination, reappraisal, or uninstructed). Following this, participants completed an analogue aggression task involving ostensibly assigning white noise blasts to their partner. Participants in the alcohol condition displayed greater IPA than participants in the placebo condition for provoked IPA, but not unprovoked IPA. Results also revealed interactions such that for those in the alcohol and rumination group, higher trait reappraisal was related to lower unprovoked IPA. For provoked IPA, higher trait rumination was related to greater IPA among those in the alcohol and rumination condition and those in the placebo and uninstructed condition. In general, results were consistent with I³ theory, suggesting that alcohol disinhibits, rumination impels, and trait reappraisal inhibits IPA. The theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed in the context of current knowledge about the influence of alcohol intoxication and emotion regulation strategies on IPA perpetration.
本研究借鉴了芬克尔和埃克哈特（2013年）的I³框架，以考察两种情绪调节策略——愤怒沉思（一种冲动因素）和重新评价（一种抑制因素），以及酒精中毒（一种去抑制因素）——对通过模拟攻击任务测量的亲密伴侣攻击行为（IPA）的交互作用。参与者是从一所大型中西部大学招募的69对夫妇（总样本量N = 138）。通过自我报告测量参与者的特质沉思和重新评价。参与者被单独随机分配到酒精或安慰剂条件下，然后在使用三种随机分配的情绪调节条件（沉思、重新评价或无指导）之一时回忆一次愤怒事件。在此之后，参与者完成了一项模拟攻击任务，该任务表面上是为他们的伴侣分配白噪音冲击。在 provoked IPA方面，酒精条件下的参与者比安慰剂条件下的参与者表现出更高的IPA，但在unprovoked IPA方面则不然。结果还揭示了交互作用，即对于酒精和沉思组中的那些人，更高的特质重新评价与更低的unprovoked IPA相关。对于provoked IPA，更高的特质沉思与酒精和沉思条件下以及安慰剂和无指导条件下的那些人的更大IPA相关。总体而言，结果与I³理论一致，表明酒精起到去抑制作用，沉思起到推动作用，特质重新评价起到抑制IPA的作用。在当前关于酒精中毒和情绪调节策略对IPA实施影响的知识背景下，讨论了这些发现的理论和临床意义。
