Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg.
Emotion. 2020 Mar;20(2):133-148. doi: 10.1037/emo0000540. Epub 2019 Jan 10.
Responding appropriately to an intimate partner's emotional signals and needs requires that one's emotional responses be reactive to significant interpersonal experiences. The adaptive function of emotions is likely compromised if an individual's emotional states are insufficiently attuned to interpersonal events. The present studies examine how individual differences in moment-to-moment emotion dynamics affect interpersonal responsiveness and relationship satisfaction. Study 1 examines associations between emotion dynamics and emotional reactivity to positive and negative relationship events. Emotion dynamics were operationalized using assessments of emotional inertia, which is defined as the degree to which emotions are resistant to change over time. Momentary assessments from 44 participants were collected four times per day over 4 weeks. Emotional inertia showed a curvilinear association with context-sensitive emotional responses to conflict, with individuals high or low in emotional inertia experiencing blunted emotional reactions to conflict. Study 2 assessed emotion dynamics based on four emotion reports per day over 10 days of both partners in a total of 103 couples. Associations of emotion dynamics with perceptions of partners' responsiveness and relationship satisfaction over 12 months were examined. Partners of individuals with high (inert) or low (erratic) emotional inertia perceived them to be less responsive, which then predicted steeper declines in their relationship satisfaction across 12 months. The results suggest that individuals with inert or erratic emotion dynamics exhibit less context-sensitive emotional responding to conflicts and are perceived by their partners to be less responsive which subsequently undermines the quality of their intimate relationships. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
对伴侣的情感信号和需求做出适当的反应需要一个人的情感反应对重要的人际经验做出反应。如果一个人的情绪状态与人际事件不够协调，那么情绪的适应功能可能会受到损害。本研究探讨了个体情绪动态的个体差异如何影响人际反应能力和关系满意度。研究 1 考察了情绪动态与对积极和消极关系事件的情绪反应性之间的关联。使用情绪惯性的评估来操作情绪动态，情绪惯性是指情绪随时间变化的抵抗程度。从 44 名参与者中收集了 4 周内每天 4 次的即时评估。情绪惯性与冲突时的情境敏感情绪反应呈曲线关系，情绪惯性高或低的个体对冲突的情绪反应迟钝。研究 2 在总共 103 对夫妇中，每天评估四次，持续 10 天，评估了情绪动态。在 12 个月内，考察了情绪动态与对伴侣反应能力和关系满意度的感知之间的关联。情绪惯性高（惰性）或低（不稳定）的个体的伴侣认为他们的反应能力较低，这随后导致他们的关系满意度在 12 个月内急剧下降。结果表明，情绪惯性惰性或不稳定的个体在冲突中表现出较少的情境敏感情绪反应，他们的伴侣认为他们的反应能力较低，从而破坏了他们亲密关系的质量。（心理学文摘数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
