Emotion regulation strategies and the two-dimensional model of adult attachment: a pilot study

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Josefa Burgos¹  Javiera Suazo¹  Catalina Carvallo¹  Camila Flores-Guerra¹  Constanza Fredes-Valenzuela¹  Andrea Sánchez-Corzo²  Mónica Guzmán-González³  Marcos Domic-Siede³  Oscar Véliz-García³  Carlos Calderón³  Jennifer Marín-Medina⁴  Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti⁵ 

[1] Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile;Multimodal Functional Brain Imaging and Neurorehabilitation Hub, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States;Núcleo de Investigación en Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile;Unidad de Terapia Familiar, Centro de Intervención y Asesoría Psicosocial CIAP, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile;Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, Grenoble, France;Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France;

关键词: emotion regulation;    cognitive reappraisal;    expressive suppression;    adult attachment;    ECR-12;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1141607

 received in 2023-01-10, accepted in 2023-06-23,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionEmotion Regulation plays a crucial role in human’s daily lives. Extensive research has shown that people with different attachment orientations exhibit divergencies in how they perform emotion regulation strategies.Methods44 adults performed an experimental emotion regulation task in which they were instructed to attend, reappraise, or suppress their emotions while viewing negative and neutral images taken from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). Afterward, participants rated valence, arousal, and emotional dominance elicited by the images. Additionally, attachment orientations were measured using the ECR-12 questionnaire.ResultsResults showed a relationship between attachment avoidance and the level of arousal during the reappraisal condition; specifically, the higher attachment avoidance levels, the greater the emotional intensity during the implementation of cognitive reappraisal strategy. Such results suggest an association between failing in downregulate intense emotions using cognitive reappraisal when there are higher levels of attachment avoidance. Consistently, we also found that lower dominance during reappraisal was associated with more levels of avoidance.ConclusionThese results indicate that people with higher levels of attachment avoidance experience difficulties when using the cognitive reappraisal strategy to reduce the emotional impact produced by negative emotional stimuli. Our findings reinforce the idea that avoidant people experience high physiological activation when experience emotions.

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Copyright © 2023 Domic-Siede, Guzmán-González, Burgos, Carvallo, Flores-Guerra, Fredes-Valenzuela, Suazo, Véliz-García, Calderón, Sánchez-Corzo, Perrone-Bertolotti and Marín-Medina.