Domic-Siede Marcos, Guzmán-González Mónica, Burgos Josefa, Carvallo Catalina, Flores-Guerra Camila, Fredes-Valenzuela Constanza, Suazo Javiera, Véliz-García Oscar, Calderón Carlos, Sánchez-Corzo Andrea, Perrone-Bertolotti Marcela, Marín-Medina Jennifer
Núcleo de Investigación en Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile.
Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile.
Front Behav Neurosci. 2023 Jul 7;17:1141607. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1141607. eCollection 2023.
Emotion Regulation plays a crucial role in human's daily lives. Extensive research has shown that people with different attachment orientations exhibit divergencies in how they perform emotion regulation strategies.
44 adults performed an experimental emotion regulation task in which they were instructed to attend, reappraise, or suppress their emotions while viewing negative and neutral images taken from (IAPS). Afterward, participants rated valence, arousal, and emotional dominance elicited by the images. Additionally, attachment orientations were measured using the ECR-12 questionnaire.
Results showed a relationship between attachment avoidance and the level of arousal during the reappraisal condition; specifically, the higher attachment avoidance levels, the greater the emotional intensity during the implementation of cognitive reappraisal strategy. Such results suggest an association between failing in downregulate intense emotions using cognitive reappraisal when there are higher levels of attachment avoidance. Consistently, we also found that lower dominance during reappraisal was associated with more levels of avoidance.
These results indicate that people with higher levels of attachment avoidance experience difficulties when using the cognitive reappraisal strategy to reduce the emotional impact produced by negative emotional stimuli. Our findings reinforce the idea that avoidant people experience high physiological activation when experience emotions.
情绪调节在人类日常生活中起着至关重要的作用。广泛的研究表明，具有不同依恋取向的人在执行情绪调节策略的方式上存在差异。
44名成年人进行了一项实验性情绪调节任务，在观看从国际情感图片系统（IAPS）中选取的负面和中性图片时，他们被指示关注、重新评估或抑制自己的情绪。之后，参与者对图片引发的效价、唤醒和情绪主导性进行评分。此外，使用ECR-12问卷测量依恋取向。
结果显示了在重新评估条件下依恋回避与唤醒水平之间的关系；具体而言，依恋回避水平越高，在实施认知重新评估策略时的情绪强度就越大。这些结果表明，当依恋回避水平较高时，使用认知重新评估来下调强烈情绪会失败，二者之间存在关联。同样，我们还发现重新评估期间较低的主导性与更多的回避水平相关。
这些结果表明，依恋回避水平较高的人在使用认知重新评估策略来减少负面情绪刺激产生的情绪影响时会遇到困难。我们的研究结果强化了这样一种观点，即回避型人格在体验情绪时会经历高度的生理激活。
