Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University.
J Fam Psychol. 2019 Aug;33(5):575-585. doi: 10.1037/fam0000515. Epub 2019 Feb 11.
Building on established links between attachment insecurity and maladaptive emotion regulation, here we examine whether traitlike attachment style predicts individual differences in mothers' emotions in situations with and without their children. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we measured the real-time positive and negative emotions of 145 mothers of young children across a 10-day period, with self-reported attachment and presence of children as predictors of individual differences in emotion. Attachment anxiety was associated with more negative emotion and attachment avoidance was associated with less positive emotion. Associations between avoidance and positive emotion were moderated by the presence of children, whereas associations between both anxiety and avoidance and negative emotion were moderated by the amount of time mothers spent with their children. These findings support the notion that parents' attachment style predicts meaningful individual differences in their real-time emotional experiences. As the first study to explore associations between attachment styles and real-time emotional experiences in mothers of young children, this work has important implications for developing interventions that enhance family well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
基于依恋不安全感与适应不良情绪调节之间的既定联系，本研究旨在探讨特质性依恋风格是否可以预测母亲在有孩子和没有孩子的情况下情绪的个体差异。本研究采用生态瞬时评估（EMA），在 10 天的时间里，对 145 名幼儿的母亲的实时积极和消极情绪进行了测量，将自我报告的依恋和孩子的存在作为情绪个体差异的预测指标。依恋焦虑与更多的消极情绪有关，而回避依恋与较少的积极情绪有关。回避与积极情绪之间的关联受到孩子存在的调节，而焦虑和回避与消极情绪之间的关联受到母亲与孩子相处时间的调节。这些发现支持了这样一种观点，即父母的依恋风格可以预测他们实时情绪体验中的有意义的个体差异。作为第一项探索幼儿母亲依恋风格与实时情绪体验之间关联的研究，这项工作对开发增强家庭幸福感的干预措施具有重要意义。（APA 版权所有 2019）
