Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Personal Disord. 2021 Nov;12(6):570-580. doi: 10.1037/per0000472. Epub 2021 Jan 7.
Individuals with personality disorders often experience romantic relationship dysfunction and have an insecure attachment style. Here, we examined attachment dynamics in dyadic interactions, focusing specifically on the role of physiological coregulation in state attachment processes in couples oversampled for personality pathology. A total of 121 couples completed a 10-minute discussion about an area of disagreement in their relationship and a 5-minute discussion in which they planned an event together. We used a dynamical model of heart rate changes to estimate coregulation. We found that (a) increases in state attachment avoidance were associated with contrarian coregulation (heart rate becoming misaligned with the partner's physiology) and (b) conversely, increases in state attachment anxiety were associated with dependent coregulation (heart rate becoming aligned with the partners' physiology). Dispositional attachment insecurity moderated the effects of state attachment insecurity on physiological coregulation. Whereas dispositional anxiety predicted individuals exhibiting dependent coregulation in response to state insecurity, dispositional avoidance predicted contrarian coregulation in response to state insecurity. This work provides insight into the role of physiological coregulation in attachment dynamics among couples oversampled for personality pathology, suggesting that disruptions to coregulation contribute to impaired emotion regulation during romantic conflicts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
个体的人格障碍往往会导致恋爱关系的失调，并具有不安全的依恋模式。在这里，我们研究了对偶互动中的依恋动态，特别关注在人格病理过度采样的夫妇中，生理共调节在状态依恋过程中的作用。共有 121 对夫妇完成了 10 分钟关于他们关系中一个分歧领域的讨论和 5 分钟一起计划一个事件的讨论。我们使用心率变化的动力学模型来估计共调节。我们发现：（a）状态依恋回避的增加与对立共调节（心率与伴侣的生理不一致）有关，（b）相反，状态依恋焦虑的增加与依赖共调节（心率与伴侣的生理一致）有关。性格依恋不安全感调节了状态依恋不安全感对生理共调节的影响。而性格焦虑预测了个体在状态不安全感下表现出依赖共调节，性格回避预测了个体在状态不安全感下表现出对立共调节。这项工作深入了解了在人格病理过度采样的夫妇中，生理共调节在依恋动态中的作用，表明共调节的中断导致浪漫冲突期间情绪调节受损。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。
