Relational Regulation Theory: A New Approach to Explain the Link Between Perceived Social Support and Mental Health
Relational Regulation Theory: A New Approach to Explain the Link Between Perceived Social Support and Mental Health
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DOI：
10.1037/a0023477
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发表时间：
2011-07-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Orehek, Edward
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作者：
Lakey, Brian;Orehek, Edward
感知到的支持始终与良好的心理健康有关，这通常被解释为来自缓冲压力的客观支持行为。然而，这种解释很难解释经常观察到的支持和心理健康之间的主要影响。关系调节理论（Relational Regulation Theory，RRT）假设，当人们通过普通但有影响的对话和共享活动来调节他们的情感，思想和行动时，而不是通过关于如何科普压力的对话，就会产生主要影响。这种调节主要是关系性的，因为调节接受者的人和社会互动的类型主要是个人品味的问题。RRT在操作上定量地定义关系，允许关系和接受者个性之间的清晰区分。RRT对社会支持做出了一些新的预测，包括新的干预方法。
Perceived support is consistently linked to good mental health, which is typically explained as resulting from objectively supportive actions that buffer stress. Yet this explanation has difficulty accounting for the often-observed main effects between support and mental health. Relational regulation theory (RRT) hypothesizes that main effects occur when people regulate their affect, thought, and action through ordinary yet affectively consequential conversations and shared activities, rather than through conversations about how to cope with stress. This regulation is primarily relational in that the types of people and social interactions that regulate recipients are mostly a matter of personal taste. RRT operationally defines relationships quantitatively, permitting the clean distinction between relationships and recipient personality. RRT makes a number of new predictions about social support, including new approaches to intervention.