Dating Couple Aggression: Using Mobile Technology to Assess Emotions, Vocalizations, and Physiology

约会伴侣之间的攻击是一个严重的社会，健康和刑事司法问题，影响到许多人，特别是青少年和年轻人。虽然通常被理解为一种代代相传的现象，但在一个咄咄逼人的家庭中长大并不一定会导致咄咄逼人的浪漫关系。 确定与年轻人约会攻击的弹性与风险相关的因素是制定有效和有针对性的教育和干预计划的重要一步。 许多先前的研究集中在静态的个人特征，以确定谁是在约会侵略的风险。然而，本研究关注的是个体、情境和情绪调节过程在真实的时间中的动态相互作用。指导本研究的冲突敏感化理论认为，当个体经历了高度的生理唤醒以及行为和情感敏感性时，冲突可能会升级。年轻的成年约会夫妇相对不熟悉处理浪漫关系中冲突的挑战。因此，它们为了解冲突是如何在日常交往中引发的以及将冲突模式与早期家庭关系联系起来提供了一个绝佳的机会。这项研究通过将约会侵略的研究从实验室带到现实世界，生态有效的家庭环境中来推进科学。这项研究考察了约会伙伴之间的日常互动，以及个人如何调整和适应，这是一个被称为“自我调节”的过程，通过行为，生理，情感和声音过程。这些过程会随着关系压力的自然变化而在约会夫妇的家庭环境中发生变化。这些措施捕捉监管过程，将与夫妇的愤怒和冲突有时间联系，允许评估负面升级周期的开始阶段。 智能手机技术被用来捕捉伴侣的活动，情绪，口语，语音编码唤醒和身体接近的瞬间评估。移动的健康技术通过测量皮肤电导和心率来评估生理唤醒。使用多模态尖端的方法收集数据在夫妇的自然环境中，这项研究可能会提供新的见解如何监管系统是连接在真实的时间内和跨合作伙伴。这项研究还将产生关于侵略如何影响调节过程的新见解，以及如何减少约会侵略。

Aggression between dating partners is a serious societal, health, and criminal justice problem that affects many persons, particularly adolescents and young adults. Although often understood as a phenomenon that is transmitted across generations, growing up in an aggressive household does not necessarily lead to aggressive romantic relationships. Identifying factors associated with resilience versus risk for young adult dating aggression is an important step for developing effective and targeted educational and intervention programs. Much of the prior research focuses on static individual characteristics to identify who is at risk for dating aggression. However, this study focuses on the dynamic interplay between individual, contextual and emotion regulation processes as they unfold in real time. Conflict sensitization theories, which guide this study, propose that conflict can be escalated when individuals experience both heightened physiological arousal and behavioral and emotional sensitivity. Young adult dating couples are relatively unfamiliar with the challenges of handling conflict in romantic relationships. Therefore they offer a prime opportunity for understanding how conflict is triggered in everyday interactions and for linking conflict patterns to earlier family relationships. This study advances science by taking the study of dating aggression out of the laboratory and into real-world, ecologically-valid home environments. The study examines everyday interactions between dating partners, and how individuals adjust and adapt, a process called "self-regulation," via behavioral, physiological, emotional, and vocal processes. Such processes will vary in dating couples' home environments as a function of naturally-occurring changes in relationship stress. These measures capture regulatory processes that will be time-linked to couple irritation and conflict, allowing for the assessment of the beginning phases of negative escalation cycles. Smartphone technology is used to capture momentary assessment of partners' activities, emotions, spoken words, vocally encoded arousal, and physical proximity. Mobile health technologies assess physiological arousal through measurements of skin conductance and heart rate. Using multi-modal cutting-edge methodologies for data collection in couples' naturalistic environment, this research may provide new insights into how regulatory systems are linked in real time within and across partners. The research will also yield new insights about how aggression affects regulatory processes, and how dating aggression can be reduced.