Emotion Regulation, Mentalization, and Autobiographical Memory Functioning as Predicting Unresolved Loss: Does Early Adversity Make a Difference?

该项目的目的是在低风险样本中测试a)早期逆境预测关于丢失的未解决依恋状态的模型，以及b)情绪调节、精神化和自传体记忆功能方面的损害，中介早期逆境和未解决的损失之间的联系。发现父母未解决的依恋状态预测子代的依恋瓦解，以及在临床群体中被归类为未解决的参与者的高比例，提出了一个问题，即是什么使一些人比其他人更容易成为或保持在虐待或丢失方面的未解决的。拟议项目的主要目的是通过调查一方面似乎是与未解决的依恋最相关的障碍的症状学基础的机制，以及另一方面的未解决的损失的指数，来确定未解决的损失的风险因素。在未解决的损失和创伤后应激障碍中明显的侵入性记忆提示自传体记忆功能障碍。不能调节情绪，不能思考过去的经历和精神状态，在未解决的失落和边缘人格障碍中很明显。情绪调节、心灵化和自传体记忆功能在亲子关系的情绪环境中发展，而这三个领域的失败已被确定为早期逆境的长期后果。同时，这三个方面的心理功能都涉及到对失落体验的适应。这些洞察力表明了一条从早期逆境到未解决的损失的途径，这是由情绪调节、心灵化和自传体记忆方面的损害所调节的。拟议的项目将使用具有最近损失经验的样本来测试假设的调解模型。

The aim of the proposed project is to test a model of a) early adversity predicting unresolved attachment status with regard to loss - as assessed in the Adult Attachment Interview - in a low-risk sample, and b) impairments in emotion regulation, mentalization, and autobiographical memory functioning mediating the association between early adversity and unresolved loss.Findings that parents' unresolved attachment status predicts attachment disorganization in offspring, and the high proportion of participants classified as unresolved in clinical groups, raise the question of what makes some individuals more vulnerable than others to becoming or remaining unresolved with regard to abuse or loss. The major aim of the proposed project is to identify risk factors for unresolved loss by investigating mechanisms which seem to underlie symptomatology in the disorders most associated with unresolved attachment on the one hand, and indices of unresolved loss on the other. Intrusive memories evident in unresolved loss and in posttraumatic stress disorder hint at dysfunctions of autobiographical memory. Failures to regulate emotions and to think about past experiences and mental states are evident in unresolved loss and in borderline personality disorder. Emotion regulation, mentalization, and autobiographical memory functioning develop in the emotional context of the parent-child relationship, and failures in these three areas have been established as long-term consequences of early adversity. At the same time, these three areas of psychological functioning are involved in the adaptation to the experience of loss. These insights suggest a pathway from early adversity to unresolved loss, which is mediated by impairments in emotion regulation, mentalization and autobiographical memory. The proposed project will test the hypothesized mediation model using a sample with a recent experience of loss.