Attachment insecurity moderates emotion responses to mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation in adults raised in low socioeconomic status households.
Attachment insecurity moderates emotion responses to mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation in adults raised in low socioeconomic status households.
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10.1037/emo0001049
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发表时间：
2022-09
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4.2
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Fredrickson, Barbara L
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West, Taylor N;Don, Brian P;Fredrickson, Barbara L
依恋理论研究认为，不安全的依恋会影响人们的日常社会和情感体验。正念冥想和仁爱冥想与身心健康的改善有关，通常是通过它们对情绪体验和调节的影响。然而，很少有研究研究如何通过冥想练习来改善不安全依恋个体的情绪健康。我们怀疑焦虑型和回避型依恋的情绪特征可能会随着冥想训练而改变，无论是在时间上还是在特定的一天。改善情绪健康可能对那些晚年最容易出现负面健康结果的人尤其重要。在低社会经济地位家庭中长大的中年成年人（N = 113； 55%白人，87.5%女性）在10周内完成了每天的情绪报告，在此期间，他们接受了6周的冥想训练，随机分为仁爱或正念冥想练习。成长曲线分析的结果显示，随着时间的推移，依恋焦虑程度较高并随机分配到正念冥想组的个体，积极情绪显著增加，消极情绪显著减少。在两个冥想组中，那些依恋回避程度高的人的负面情绪都显著减少。在日常水平上，对个体的剂量-反应分析显示，在冥想练习的持续时间和当天积极情绪的增加和消极情绪的减少之间，依恋焦虑程度较高的个体表现出最一致的剂量-反应关系。这些发现强调了冥想干预如何改变无安全感的中年成年人的情绪特征，这些人晚年患慢性病的风险很高。
Research on attachment theory holds that insecure attachment influences people’s daily social and emotional experiences. Mindfulness meditation and loving-kindness meditation have been associated with improvements in physical and mental well-being often through their influence on emotion experience and regulation. Yet, little research has examined how emotional well-being may be improved in insecurely attached individuals through meditation practice. We suspected that the emotion profiles of anxious and avoidant attachment may shift with meditation training, both across time and on a particular day. Improving emotional well-being may be especially consequential for those most at-risk for negative health outcomes in late life. A diverse community sample of midlife adults raised in low-SES homes (N = 113; 55% white, 87.5% female) completed daily emotion reports for 10 weeks, during which they received 6 weeks of meditation training, randomized to either loving-kindness or mindfulness meditation practice. Results from growth curve analyses revealed that individuals with greater attachment anxiety and randomized to mindfulness meditation reported significant increases over time in positive emotions alongside decreases in negative emotions. Those high in attachment avoidance reported significant decreases in negative emotions in both meditation groups. On the daily level, within-person dose-response analyses revealed that individuals with greater attachment anxiety showed the most consistent dose-response relations between the duration of either meditation practice and same-day increases in positive emotions and decreases in negative emotions. These findings highlight how meditation interventions can shift emotion profiles of insecurely attached midlife adults who are at heightened risk for late life chronic illnesses.