Hofmann Philipp, Schroter Franziska Anna, Jost Leonardo, Siebertz Markus, Jansen Petra
Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
BMC Psychol. 2025 Aug 29;13(1):985. doi: 10.1186/s40359-025-03322-7.
The main goal of this study was to examine the relation between inner (equanimity), and outer (postural stability) balance. It was expected that participants with a higher sense of equanimity, higher emotion regulation abilities, and higher executive control performance abilities would show better postural stability in an emotionally demanding situation. This hypothesis adds to the importance of emotion regulation in the assumed relation between equanimity and postural stability.
One hundred forty-seven young, healthy participants completed a postural sway task under emotionally demanding and neutral conditions. Emotion regulation strategies were measured using the affective style questionnaire, and attentional abilities were assessed using the attention network task.
Participants with low equanimity had a higher sample entropy (higher complexity of postural stability signal) when emotion acceptance was low compared to high emotion acceptance. In participants with high equanimity, the effect reverses. However, the results were only obtained with one postural stability parameter, namely the parameter of sample entropy.
Inner and outer balance are somehow related, and the emotional regulation strategy of acceptance might play an important role. However, the results depend on measuring outer balance, and further studies must investigate the relationship in more depth.
Preregistration: This study was preregistered at OSF: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/USPWF .
本研究的主要目标是考察内在平衡（平静）与外在平衡（姿势稳定性）之间的关系。预计在情绪要求较高的情境中，具有更高平静感、更高情绪调节能力和更高执行控制表现能力的参与者将表现出更好的姿势稳定性。这一假设增加了情绪调节在平静与姿势稳定性之间假定关系中的重要性。
147名年轻健康的参与者在情绪要求较高和中性的条件下完成了姿势摆动任务。使用情感风格问卷测量情绪调节策略，并使用注意力网络任务评估注意力能力。
与高情绪接纳度相比，在低情绪接纳度时，平静感低的参与者具有更高的样本熵（姿势稳定性信号的更高复杂性）。在平静感高的参与者中，效果则相反。然而，结果仅通过一个姿势稳定性参数，即样本熵参数获得。
内在平衡和外在平衡在某种程度上是相关的，接纳的情绪调节策略可能起着重要作用。然而，结果取决于对外在平衡的测量，进一步的研究必须更深入地探究这种关系。
预注册：本研究在开放科学框架（OSF）进行了预注册：https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/USPWF 。
