Zeng Zihao, Holtmaat Karen, Jia Xihan, Kleiboer Annet, Rhighetti Francesca, Brouwer Anne-Marie, Ramseyer Fabian, Hendrikse Sophie C F, Koole Sander L
School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2025 May 20;20(5):e0323526. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0323526. eCollection 2025.
During interpersonal emotion regulation, relationship partners mutually regulate each other's emotional states. Interpersonal emotion regulation occurs at three main timescales: phasic (from several hundred milliseconds to about 10s), tonic (from 10s to 1 hour), and chronic (from weeks to months and years). Prior research has examined interpersonal emotion regulation at only one or two timescales simultaneously. The proposed research will examine variables relating to interpersonal emotion regulation in close relationships across all three timescales. A total of 150 romantic couples will engage in an emotional sharing task, in which they will be instructed to either engage in natural sharing or co-rumination. At the phasic timescale, primary outcomes will be interpersonal synchrony in movements and cardiovascular responses throughout the sharing task. At the tonic timescale, primary outcomes will be changes in mood and emotional appraisals pre- and post-sharing. At the chronic timescale, the study will primarily assess individual differences in relationship quality and dyadic coping style prior to the task, which are expected to shape phasic and tonic patterns during emotional sharing. Our general expectation is that phasic patterns in interpersonal emotion regulation (e.g., movement synchrony) will be meaningfully related to tonic patterns (e.g., mood change), which, in turn, will be meaningfully related to chronic patterns (e.g., relationship quality). More differentiated hypotheses and exploratory analyses are detailed in the protocol. The results of this research will contribute to the integration of interpersonal emotion regulation theories across different time scales.
在人际情绪调节过程中，关系伙伴相互调节彼此的情绪状态。人际情绪调节发生在三个主要时间尺度上：阶段性（从几百毫秒到大约10秒）、持续性（从10秒到1小时）和长期性（从数周、数月到数年）。先前的研究仅同时考察了一两个时间尺度上的人际情绪调节。拟开展的研究将考察亲密关系中跨所有三个时间尺度的人际情绪调节相关变量。总共150对浪漫情侣将参与一项情绪分享任务，在该任务中，他们将被指示要么进行自然分享，要么共同反刍。在阶段性时间尺度上，主要结果将是整个分享任务中动作和心血管反应方面的人际同步性。在持续性时间尺度上，主要结果将是分享前后情绪和情绪评估的变化。在长期性时间尺度上，该研究将主要在任务前评估关系质量和二元应对方式的个体差异，预计这些差异会在情绪分享过程中塑造阶段性和持续性模式。我们的总体预期是，人际情绪调节中的阶段性模式（如动作同步）将与持续性模式（如情绪变化）有意义地相关，而持续性模式又将与长期性模式（如关系质量）有意义地相关。更具体的假设和探索性分析在方案中有详细说明。本研究结果将有助于整合不同时间尺度上的人际情绪调节理论。
