Balzarotti S, Biassoni F, Colombo B, Ciceri M R
Psychology Department, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Gemelli 1, 20123, Milan, Italy.
Psychology Department, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Gemelli 1, 20123, Milan, Italy.
Biol Psychol. 2017 Dec;130:54-66. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.10.008. Epub 2017 Oct 25.
In the last two decades, a growing body of theory and research has targeted the role of cardiac vagal control (CVC) in emotional responding. This research has either focused on resting CVC (also denoted as cardiac vagal tone) or phasic changes in CVC (also denoted as vagal reactivity) in response to affective stimuli. The present paper is aimed at reporting a review of the papers published between 1996 and 2016, and focused on the results of 135 papers examining cardiac vagal control as a physiological marker of emotion regulation in healthy adults. The review shows that studies have employed a wide array of methodologies and measures, often leading to conflicting results. High resting CVC has been associated with better down-regulation of negative affect, use of adaptive regulatory strategies, and more flexible emotional responding. Concerning phasic changes, research has consistently found decreased CVC in response to stress, while CVC increases have been shown to reflect either self-regulatory efforts or recovery from stress. Despite conflicting results, we conclude that existing literature supports the use of CVC as a noninvasive, objective marker of emotion regulation.
在过去二十年中，越来越多的理论和研究聚焦于心脏迷走神经控制（CVC）在情绪反应中的作用。这项研究要么集中于静息状态下的CVC（也称为心脏迷走神经张力），要么关注CVC在对情感刺激做出反应时的相位变化（也称为迷走神经反应性）。本文旨在对1996年至2016年间发表的论文进行综述，并着重于135篇将心脏迷走神经控制作为健康成年人情绪调节生理指标的论文的研究结果。综述表明，这些研究采用了各种各样的方法和测量手段，常常导致相互矛盾的结果。高静息CVC与更好地调节负面情绪、采用适应性调节策略以及更灵活的情绪反应相关。关于相位变化，研究一直发现应激状态下CVC会降低，而CVC增加则被证明要么反映自我调节努力，要么反映从应激状态中恢复。尽管结果相互矛盾，但我们得出结论，现有文献支持将CVC用作情绪调节的非侵入性客观指标。
