Ciuluvica Neagu Cristina, Grossu Ioan Valeriu, Amerio Paolo
Department of Psychological Sciences, Health, and Territory (DISPUTer), University G. D'Annunzio, Via dei Vestini, 66013 Chieti, Italy.
Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, P.O. Box MG 11, 077125 Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania.
Brain Sci. 2020 Feb 9;10(2):89. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10020089.
In this work, we propose an interdisciplinary chaos analysis of emotion dysregulation (ED) and emotional vulnerability in adults. One of the main goals was the assessment of incongruences that occur in the evaluation of one's own emotional dysregulation mechanisms in the presence of an extremely weak stimulus (Butterfly Effect). Thus, we considered a "flavor" of the Lyapunov Function method based on the assumption that the effort of answering to the test is itself a small perturbation. In this context, we calculated the "instability coefficient" Δ defined as the Euclidean distance between the pairs of vectors that include similar and reverted items of a test. The relationship between Δ, ED, and emotional characteristics as quality (positive/negative) and type (trait/state) was highlighted. We hypothesized that a higher level of Δ should be significantly related with a higher ED and with the type and the quality of emotions. The results suggest that Δ is significantly correlated with trait emotions (positively with negative emotions, and negatively with positive ones) and with ED. Moreover, Δ significantly predicts ED in adults. Thus, we consider that this approach is promising with respect to the evolution of emotional mechanisms across time. The presence of an initial instability to a weak perturbation might predict future abnormal emotional functioning, which could put at risk the mental or psychosomatic systems.
在这项工作中，我们提出了一种针对成年人情绪调节障碍（ED）和情绪易损性的跨学科混沌分析。主要目标之一是评估在极微弱刺激（蝴蝶效应）存在的情况下，个体对自身情绪调节机制评估中出现的不一致性。因此，基于回答测试的努力本身就是一个小扰动这一假设，我们考虑了李雅普诺夫函数方法的一种“变体”。在此背景下，我们计算了“不稳定性系数”Δ，它被定义为包含测试中相似和反转项目的向量对之间的欧几里得距离。强调了Δ、ED以及情绪特征（如质量（积极/消极）和类型（特质/状态））之间的关系。我们假设较高水平的Δ应与较高的ED以及情绪的类型和质量显著相关。结果表明，Δ与特质情绪（与消极情绪呈正相关，与积极情绪呈负相关）以及ED显著相关。此外，Δ能显著预测成年人的ED。因此，我们认为这种方法对于情绪机制随时间的演变具有前景。对微弱扰动存在初始不稳定性可能预示着未来异常的情绪功能，这可能会危及心理或心身系统。
