Varley Deanna, Sherwell Chase S, Kirby James N
Compassionate Mind Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney, Sydney, QLD, Australia.
Front Psychol. 2024 Jul 31;15:1409537. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1409537. eCollection 2024.
Researchers have identified links between anxious and avoidant attachments and difficulties with self-compassion, giving others compassion, and receiving compassion. However, while compassion requires both awareness of opportunities for compassion and compassionate action, little is known about attachment-related differences in reporting compassionate opportunities. Further, most research relies on retrospective-reports that may not accurately assess compassionate behaviors in everyday life.
Consequently, we collected 2,757 experience sampling survey responses from 125 participants (95 women, 27 men, 3 non-binary, = 18.74, = 1.66) to investigate whether attachment anxiety, avoidance, or their interaction were associated with differences in propensity for reporting compassionate opportunities, actions, and emotional responses to opportunities in everyday life across self-compassion, giving compassion, and receiving compassion.
Anxiety was associated with greater likelihood of reporting all types of compassionate opportunities and less positive responses to opportunities to receive compassion. Avoidance was associated with less likelihood of reporting opportunities to give and receive compassion and less positive responses to opportunities to give compassion. Those high in anxiety but simultaneously low in avoidance reported fewer self-compassionate actions, but we identified no further differences in compassionate action.
This study highlights the potential role of awareness of compassionate opportunities in attachment-related differences in compassion.
研究人员已经确定了焦虑型和回避型依恋与自我同情、给予他人同情以及接受同情方面的困难之间的联系。然而，尽管同情既需要意识到同情的机会，也需要有同情的行为，但对于报告同情机会时与依恋相关的差异却知之甚少。此外，大多数研究依赖于回顾性报告，而这些报告可能无法准确评估日常生活中的同情行为。
因此，我们收集了125名参与者（95名女性、27名男性、3名非二元性别者，平均年龄 = 18.74岁，标准差 = 1.66）的2757份经验抽样调查回复，以调查依恋焦虑、回避或它们的相互作用是否与在日常生活中自我同情、给予同情和接受同情时报告同情机会、行为以及对机会的情绪反应的倾向差异有关。
焦虑与报告所有类型同情机会的可能性增加以及对接受同情机会的较不积极反应相关。回避与报告给予和接受同情机会的可能性降低以及对给予同情机会的较不积极反应相关。焦虑程度高但回避程度同时低的人报告的自我同情行为较少，但我们未发现同情行为有进一步差异。
本研究强调了同情机会意识在同情方面与依恋相关差异中的潜在作用。
