Léonard Florence, Ramos Brenda, Emond Marianne, Pudelko Apollonia H, Roy Arianne, Vaillancourt-Morel Marie-Pier, Péloquin Katherine, Daspe Marie-Ève
Department of Psychology, Universite de Montreal.
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres.
Psychol Trauma. 2025 Sep 15. doi: 10.1037/tra0002033.
Cumulative childhood interpersonal trauma (CCIT) is associated with important outcomes within romantic relationships, including lower dyadic empathy. Dyadic empathy is comprised of perspective-taking, that is, putting oneself in the partner's place, and empathic concern, that is, emotions felt toward the partner's emotional experience. As empathic difficulties may affect the quality of romantic relationships, it is important to better understand the mechanisms underlying the links between CCIT and empathy toward a partner. Hostile attribution bias (i.e., the tendency to perceive others' intentions as negative), being positively linked to CCIT and negatively associated with empathy, appears to be a relevant, yet unexplored, mechanism in the link between CCIT and dyadic empathy. The present study examined the role of hostile attribution bias in the dyadic associations linking one's CCIT to their own as well as their partner's perspective-taking and empathic concern.
A sample of 190 couples aged 18 to 29 completed online questionnaires.
One's CCIT was positively related to their own hostile attribution bias, which was negatively associated with both their own perspective-taking and their partner's empathic concern.
Targeting hostile attributions among individuals with CCIT might constitute an interesting pathway to enhance their own and their partner's empathy within the relationship and, therefore, foster positive couple dynamics during young adulthood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
童年累积性人际创伤（CCIT）与浪漫关系中的重要结果相关，包括较低的二元共情。二元共情由观点采择（即设身处地为伴侣着想）和共情关注（即对伴侣情感体验所感受到的情绪）组成。由于共情困难可能会影响浪漫关系的质量，因此更好地理解CCIT与对伴侣的共情之间联系的潜在机制非常重要。敌意归因偏差（即倾向于将他人的意图视为负面）与CCIT呈正相关，与共情呈负相关，似乎是CCIT与二元共情之间联系中的一个相关但尚未被探索的机制。本研究考察了敌意归因偏差在将个体的CCIT与他们自己以及伴侣的观点采择和共情关注联系起来的二元关联中的作用。
190对年龄在18至29岁之间的情侣样本完成了在线问卷。
个体的CCIT与他们自己的敌意归因偏差呈正相关，而敌意归因偏差与他们自己的观点采择以及伴侣的共情关注均呈负相关。
针对有CCIT的个体的敌意归因可能是增强他们自身及伴侣在关系中的共情、从而促进青年期积极的伴侣互动的一条有趣途径。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
