Romantic Attachment and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation on Dyadic Adjustment: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Fávero, Marisalva; Lemos, Lúcia Castro; Moreira, Diana; Ribeiro, Filipe Nunes; Sousa‐Gomes, Valéria

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.723823

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“…Alternatively, it is possible that the communications by distance lead to more misunderstandings, therefore suffering more from negative emotions which resulted in an increase of the depression levels. All these results suggest that the university population that was in a romantic relationship should be given more consideration [32,33].…”

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The rapid change of mental health in college students after on-campus quarantine in Shanghai 2022 Covid lockdown

Kuang

Lan

et al. 2022

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Importance: Social isolation during outbreaks of epidemics always challenge psychological resilience profoundly. However, it still remains unclear how students’ mental health would be affected by strict on-campus quarantine, which means students stayed at dormitories or on-campus for quarantine. We analyzed the data from one of the earliest universities releasing strict on-campus quarantine to prevent the Omicron spread-out in Shanghai, to evaluate the time course of the psychological resilience in the influence of an unexpected change in the living space in university students.Objectives：The campus was locked down on 9th March. From 9th to 23rd, all students on campus were asked to stay in their dormitries, and teachers sent food supplies three times a day. From 24th March to early April, students were gradually allowed to enter the campus for necessary activities. We quantify dynamic changes in depression severity during the campus locked down.Method: All participants were undergraduate or graduate students. The survey was released on 5th, April. All survey was dropped a public link on www.wjx.cn and administered from April 5th to 7th, 2022. Following the schedule of quarantine area, we assessed depressive symptoms in SJTU students from Period 1 (two weeks before 9th, March), Period 2 (9th to 23rd, March), and Period 3 (24th March to 5th April). 274 students completed the online survey, and two incomplete data were excluded for further analysis. All these participants aged range from 18 to 25 years old and were quarantined in dormitories since 9th March 2022.Findings:A remarkable increase in depression was observed in university students after stringent quarantine. The portion of students with depression started at 9.1% before quarantine and rapidly increased to 36.1% right after quarantine. No more increase in depressive symptoms was observed with time though quarantine was ongoing, which can be predicted by the food supplement satisfaction and the duration of physical fitness per day. Interestingly, the impact of a sudden change in living space on the psychological resilence was more evident in students who have a romatic relationship than singles.

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confidence: 89%

The rapid change of mental health in college students after on-campus quarantine in Shanghai 2022 Covid lockdown

Kuang

Lan

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“…The counterintuitive findings for sexual desire—one’s level of interest in sexual activity (Birnbaum, 2018)—can be interpreted in light of both the intimacy-interfering aspect of poor emotion regulation and the context-dependent function of sexual desire in relationships (Birnbaum, 2018). Because difficulties regulating negative emotion undermine moment-to-moment intimacy (i.e., the degree to which intimate partners feel close, connected, and bonded to each other; Fávero et al, 2021; Tani et al, 2015), individuals who struggle more to manage their negative feelings and behaviors during sexual conflict may feel less emotionally close with their partner: concurrently, they may report lower dyadic sexual desire. Indeed, the positive associations between intimacy and sexual desire appear to be stronger when these constructs are measured in closer proximity to each other (Shrier & Blood, 2016; van Lankveld et al, 2021).…”

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Hooked on a feeling: Downregulation of negative emotion during sexual conflict is associated with sexual well-being among long-term couples.

Dubé,

Bergeron,

Bosisio

et al. 2024

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Intimate partners experience more negative emotion in response to sexual versus nonsexual conflicts in their relationship. Negative emotions hinder communication and sexual well-being. In a laboratory-based observational study, we tested the prediction that couples who took longer to downregulate negative emotion during a sexual conflict discussion would report lower sexual well-being. Long-term couples (N = 150) were video recorded while they discussed the most contentious problem within their sexual relationship. Participants subsequently viewed their filmed discussion and used a joystick to continuously report on their emotional experience during their disagreement. Trained coders continuously coded the valence of participants' emotional behavior. Downregulation of negative emotion was assessed by calculating how quickly, on average, an individual's negative emotional experience and behavior returned to neutral during their discussion. Participants also completed measures assessing sexual distress, satisfaction, and desire prior to the discussion and 1 year later. Analyses were conducted per the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. For both women and men, we found that a person's slower downregulation of negative emotional experience was concurrently associated with their own greater sexual distress and lower sexual desire and with their partner's lower sexual satisfaction. Downregulation of negative emotional experience also predicted one's own lower sexual satisfaction and, surprisingly, higher sexual desire for both members of the couple 1 year later. People who took longer to downregulate their negative emotional behavior during the conflict also reported higher sexual desire 1 year later. Findings suggest that greater difficulty shifting out negative emotional states during sexual conflict is concurrently linked with poorer sexual well-being for long-term couples.

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“…This is conditioned by the peculiarity of the avoidant attachment style, namely, the tendency of respondents to be guided by reason rather than feelings, the fear of falling into the trap of relationships, the value of freedom, and ease in love. M. Favero found that people with avoidant attachment style are characterised by emotional deactivation to suppress negative emotions caused by the fear of rejection [23]. A. Santona found that people with the anxious type, on the contrary, show increased emotional responses [24].…”

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Empirical Indicators of the Relationship between Attachment Style and Attitude to Love in Early Maturity

Литвинова¹,

Staryk²

2022

Scientific Bulletin of Mukachevo State University. Series «Pedagogy and Psychology»

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The paper focuses on the investigation of the phenomenon of love and the attachment style in early maturity, the study of which is conditioned by the increasing number of divorces, interpersonal conflicts in young couples, the lack of understanding that the attitude to love in adulthood can be associated with the attachment style formed at an early age. The actualisation of this problem is of practical value in the context of providing psychological support to young couples on the way to building harmonious interpersonal relationships. The purpose of the study was to provide a theoretical substantiation and empirical analysis of the influence of attachment style on the attitude to love. To achieve the goal and solve the tasks, a set of methods was used: theoretical – analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalisation; empirical – observations, conversations, ascertaining experiment, online testing (questionnaire “Your attitude to love” by E. Ilyin, the method “Test for reliability/unreliability of attachment” by E.Chen to identify attachment style and patterns of behaviour in relationships during a stressful situation; test “Manifestation of unreliable attachment” by E. Chen, an associative technique developed by the author regarding the attitude to the phenomenon of love “Love – is...” with subsequent content-analysis); methods of quantitative and qualitative data processing. The analysis of theoretical approaches to the study of the problems of attachment and love, which are considered by representatives of the psychoanalytic school, humanistic psychology, etc., is carried out. A pilot study using both standardised self-reports and content analysis of words-associations to the word “love”, established that the majority of respondents are characterised by romanticisation of love, a lack of understanding that love is a feeling that requires a responsible attitude towards a partner. It is stated that the attachment style that is formed in early childhood can be a factor influencing the attitude to love, to close relationships at a later age. Given this fact, psychological work to understand these phenomena should begin as early as high school, where psychological education can develop skills for interpersonal communication, responsible relationships in couples, and responsible parenthood in the future

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Romantic Attachment and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation on Dyadic Adjustment: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Cited by 13 publications

References 128 publications

The rapid change of mental health in college students after on-campus quarantine in Shanghai 2022 Covid lockdown

The rapid change of mental health in college students after on-campus quarantine in Shanghai 2022 Covid lockdown

Hooked on a feeling: Downregulation of negative emotion during sexual conflict is associated with sexual well-being among long-term couples.

Empirical Indicators of the Relationship between Attachment Style and Attitude to Love in Early Maturity

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