Department of Psychology, REACH Institute, Arizona State University, 900 S, McAllister Ave, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
Int J Behav Med. 2023 Jun;30(3):307-319. doi: 10.1007/s12529-022-10101-w. Epub 2022 Jun 13.
This study investigated the ways in which adults reflect on their psychological experiences amid a recent marital separation and how these patterns of thought, manifest in language, are associated with self-reported negative affect and actigraphy-assessed sleep disturbance.
In a sample of 138 recently separated adults assessed three times over five months, we examined within- and between-person associations among psychological overinvolvement (operationalized using verbal immediacy derived as a function of the language participants used to discuss their relationship history and divorce experience), continued attachment to an ex-partner, negative affect, and sleep efficiency.
The association between psychological overinvolvement and negative affect operated at the within-person level, whereas the associations between psychological overinvolvement and sleep disturbance, as well as negative affect and sleep disturbance, operated at the between-person level.
These findings shed light on the intraindividual processes that may explain why some people are more susceptible to poor outcomes after separation/divorce than others. Our findings suggest that individuals who express their divorce-related thoughts and feelings in a psychologically overinvolved manner may be at greatest risk for sleep disturbances after marital separation/divorce.
本研究调查了成年人在最近经历婚姻分离时如何反思自己的心理体验，以及这些以语言表现出来的思维模式如何与自我报告的负面情绪和活动记录仪评估的睡眠障碍相关联。
在一个由 138 名最近经历婚姻分离的成年人组成的样本中，我们在五个月的时间内进行了三次评估，研究了心理过度卷入（通过参与者用来讨论他们的关系历史和离婚经历的语言得出的言语即时性来操作化）、对前伴侣的持续依恋、负面情绪和睡眠效率之间的个体内和个体间关联。
心理过度卷入与负面情绪之间的关联在个体内水平上起作用，而心理过度卷入与睡眠障碍之间的关联，以及负面情绪与睡眠障碍之间的关联，则在个体间水平上起作用。
这些发现揭示了可能解释为什么有些人比其他人更容易在分离/离婚后出现不良后果的个体内部过程。我们的研究结果表明，以心理过度卷入的方式表达与离婚相关的想法和感受的个体，在婚姻分离/离婚后出现睡眠障碍的风险可能最大。
