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Interpersonal Style, Frontal Brain EEG Activity and Emotional Responses

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2010, v.22 no.4, pp.509-527
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2010.22.4.005

(2010). Interpersonal Style, Frontal Brain EEG Activity and Emotional Responses. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 22(4), 509-527, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2010.22.4.005

Abstract

This research examined the role of adult attachment style in subjective and neurophysiological aspects of human emotion. Experimental participants were classified into secure, fearful/avoidant, preoccupied and avoidant attachment style by the Relationship Questionnaire. During resting baseline, frontal brain asymmetry(FBA), heart rate(HR) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia(RSA) were recorded. After each 60 sec. rest period, self-reported emotional arousal and pleasantness, FBA, HR, and RSA were analysed while participants watched video-clips inducing happiness, fear and sadness with attachment-related content. At baseline, secure group showed higher left midfrontal activation than avoidant group and showed higher RSA than both fearful/avoidant and preoccupied groups. Secure individuals displayed higher arousal feelings, higher left midfrontal activation, lower HR and higher RSA to emotional video clips. Fearful/avoidant individuals responded to emotional stimuli with higher arousal feelings and higher right midfrontal activation and responded to negative stimuli with higher HR and lower RSA. Preoccupied individuals reported higher aroused subjective experiences to emotional stimuli and showed higher left midfrontal activation, higher HR and RSA to happiness clip, whereas opposite FBA and RSA patterns were observed in response to fear clip. Avoidant individuals responded to fear stimuli with lower arousal feelings, higher left midfrontal activation, and lower HR. These results suggest that attachment experiences could influence individual variability in emotion regulation and modulate underlying neurophysiological processes including FBA and vagal tone.

keywords
성인애착유형, 전전두피질 비대칭성, 심박률, 호흡공동부정맥, 정서조절, attachment style, secure, fearful/avoidant, preoccupied, avoidant, FBA, HR, RSA

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