Oláh Katalin
Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
PLoS One. 2025 Jun 3;20(6):e0325205. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0325205. eCollection 2025.
The present study investigated the relationship between attachment and emotion recognition in adolescents and adults. While previous research has found an association between these constructs in young children, as of yet, only a handful of studies have extended the investigation to later periods of life, either focusing on adults or adolescents. To capture the developmental changes that may take place during the transition from childhood to adulthood, we present findings with the same methodology on a group of adults and adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18. Participants completed the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test and filled out a self-report questionnaire on attachment style. Results suggest that attachment avoidance is associated with poorer emotion recognition capacities in adolescents, specifically in the case of positive emotions, while anxiety may have a positive, although weaker effect on mindreading. These associations are attenuated significantly by adulthood. Results are discussed in terms of information processing biases associated with attachment anxiety and avoidance.
本研究调查了青少年和成年人的依恋与情绪识别之间的关系。虽然先前的研究已经发现幼儿期这些构念之间存在关联，但截至目前，只有少数研究将调查扩展到生命的后期阶段，要么聚焦于成年人，要么聚焦于青少年。为了捕捉从童年到成年过渡期间可能发生的发展变化，我们采用相同的方法，呈现了一组年龄在14至18岁之间的成年人和青少年的研究结果。参与者完成了“眼神读心”测试，并填写了一份关于依恋风格的自我报告问卷。结果表明，在青少年中，回避型依恋与较差的情绪识别能力相关，特别是在识别积极情绪方面，而焦虑可能对心理理论有积极影响，尽管这种影响较弱。到成年期时，这些关联会显著减弱。我们从与依恋焦虑和回避相关的信息加工偏差的角度对结果进行了讨论。
