Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies
A crucial point for the understanding of the link between attachment and emotion regulation concerns the individual tendency in turning to others to alleviate distress. Most previous studies in this field have considered almost exclusively intra-personal forms of emotion regulation, neglecting the...
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A crucial point for the understanding of the link between attachment and emotion regulation concerns the individual tendency in turning to others to alleviate distress. Most previous studies in this field have considered almost exclusively intra-personal forms of emotion regulation, neglecting the role of social interaction in emotion regulation processes. In the present study, instead, we focused on interpersonal emotion regulation. 630 adults were assessed for their attachment orientations, general difficulties in emotion regulation, and habitual intra-personal and interpersonal emotion regulation strategies. Results showed that the imbalance between the hyper-activation and deactivation of the attachment system, which characterize unsecure attachment, reflects a correspondent imbalance in the use of emotion regulation strategies, with an exaggerated dependence on other associated with attachment anxiety and pseudo-autonomy associated to attachment avoidance.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4dd71a00ac54c1797d185e6656d93342024-01-15T22:49:14ZengPAGEPress PublicationsResearch in Psychotherapy2499-75522239-80312024-01-0126310.4081/ripppo.2023.703Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategiesIrene Messina0Vincenzo Calvo1Alessandro Grecucci2Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences, Mercatorum UniversityDepartment of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology, University of PaduaDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento A crucial point for the understanding of the link between attachment and emotion regulation concerns the individual tendency in turning to others to alleviate distress. Most previous studies in this field have considered almost exclusively intra-personal forms of emotion regulation, neglecting the role of social interaction in emotion regulation processes. In the present study, instead, we focused on interpersonal emotion regulation. 630 adults were assessed for their attachment orientations, general difficulties in emotion regulation, and habitual intra-personal and interpersonal emotion regulation strategies. Results showed that the imbalance between the hyper-activation and deactivation of the attachment system, which characterize unsecure attachment, reflects a correspondent imbalance in the use of emotion regulation strategies, with an exaggerated dependence on other associated with attachment anxiety and pseudo-autonomy associated to attachment avoidance. https://www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/index.php/rpsy/article/view/703Attachmentemotion regulationinterpersonalavoidanceanxiety |
| spellingShingle | Irene Messina Vincenzo Calvo Alessandro Grecucci Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies Research in Psychotherapy Attachment emotion regulation interpersonal avoidance anxiety |
| title | Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies |
| title_full | Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies |
| title_fullStr | Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies |
| title_short | Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies |
| title_sort | attachment orientations and emotion regulation new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies |
| topic | Attachment emotion regulation interpersonal avoidance anxiety |
| url | https://www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/index.php/rpsy/article/view/703 |
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