Anxiety and Avoidance in Close Relationships Are Associated With Responses to Negative and Positive Stimuli.

Autor: Weldon RB; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY, USA., Behrens KY; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY, USA., Jones DK; Department of Engineering Technology, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY, USA., Drake EA; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY, USA., Fragetta JR; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychological reports [Psychol Rep] 2023 Dec; Vol. 126 (6), pp. 2821-2833. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 27.
DOI: 10.1177/00332941221129133
Abstrakt: Humans tend to assign valence to objects, people, and events in the environment, but there are individual differences in the evaluation of the affective nature of these environmental stimuli. This exploratory study investigated how individual differences in anxiety and avoidance in close relationships are associated with the emotional appraisal of valenced and neutral stimuli. Participants evaluated negative, neutral, and positive stimuli for emotional valence in an image classification task. There was a positivity offset across all participants, in that neutral stimuli were evaluated as more positive than negative. Individuals higher on the Experiences in Close Relationships-Anxiety subscale showed a negativity bias in reaction times and ratings: they had faster response times to negative than to positive stimuli and had a greater tendency to evaluate positive stimuli as "negative." Individuals higher on the Experiences in Close Relationships-Avoidance subscale gave more positive ratings of negative stimuli and more negative ratings of positive stimuli, which may suggest a general blunted response to emotional stimuli. Findings are discussed in the context of the literature on individual differences and emotional appraisal of stimuli.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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