Emotion regulation strategies and the two-dimensional model of adult attachment: a pilot study
Emotion 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. 44 adults performed an experimental emotion regulation task in which they were...
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Published in | Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience Vol. 17; p. 1141607 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Switzerland
Frontiers Research Foundation
07.07.2023
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Summary: | Emotion 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.
44 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
(IAPS). Afterward, participants rated valence, arousal, and emotional dominance elicited by the images. Additionally, attachment orientations were measured using the ECR-12 questionnaire.
Results 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.
These 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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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ORCID: Marcos Domic-Siede, orcid.org/0000000251911133; Mónica Guzmán-González, orcid.org/0000000234610451; Josefa Burgos, orcid.org/0000000170258793; Catalina Carvallo, orcid.org/0000000296538686; Camila Flores-Guerra, orcid.org/0000000343132348; Constanza Fredes-Valenzuela, orcid.org/0000000289700630; Javiera Suazo, orcid.org/0000000221460386; Oscar Véliz-García, orcid.org/0000000246984012; Carlos Calderón, orcid.org/0000000292373749; Andrea Sánchez-Corzo, orcid.org/0000000340427036; Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, orcid.org/0000000199817042; Jennifer Marín-Medina, orcid.org/0000000251814990 Reviewed by: Jaime R. Silva, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile; Jose Miguel Mestre, University of Cádiz, Spain Edited by: R. David Hayward, Ascension St. John Hospital, United States |
ISSN: | 1662-5153 1662-5153 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1141607 |