情绪调节与个体依恋策略的形成机制

情绪调节是个体管理和改变自己或他人情绪的过程,依恋是抚养者与孩子之间一种特殊的情感上的联结,情绪调节影响着个体依恋策略的形成与发展。鲍尔比在其生物学理论中指出,人类婴儿生来就具有寻求并维持与重要他人亲密关系的行为,这种寻求接近的行为是天生的情绪调节装置,具有重要的保护功能。沙沃尔等人在以往研究的基础上,把情绪调节和依恋理论结合起来,提出了依恋策略形成的动力激活模型。

Emotion Regulation and the Development of Attachment-Related Strategies

Emotion regulation consists of the extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible of monitoring,evaluating,and modifying emotional reactions to accomplish one's goals.Attachment is the special relations between children and their caretakers.The development of attachment strategies is influenced by emotion regulation.Bowlby argued in his ethological theory that infants are born with attachment behaviors aimed at seeking and maintaining proximity to supportive others.Proximity seeking is an inborn affect-regulation device designed to protect an individual from physical and psychological threats.Recently,Shaver and Mikulincer advanced a dynamics model to explain the development of attachment strategies,trying to integrate emotion regulation into attachment theories.