Changes in the individual's attachment orientation toward greater security are considered an important clinical goal. One promising underlying process of change in attachment orientation is shifting the emotion regulation tendency, in which the individual progresses from overreliance on the self or on the other to regulate emotional arousal. The present study utilized a computational approach to study shifts in the emotion regulation tendency as these manifest in the patient's and therapist's vocally encoded emotional arousal. The study examined whether shifts in the regulation tendency are associated with decreases in the level of insecure attachment and in strengthening of the therapeutic alliance. Shifts in the regulation tendency were examined throughout the early stages of treatment (Sessions 1-4) using 11,710 talk turns within 52 patient-therapist dyads. Findings suggest that shifts in the emotion regulation tendency are associated with greater strengthening of the therapeutic alliance and a decrease in the level of attachment avoidance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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改变依恋方向：揭示改变情绪调节倾向的作用。


个体的依恋取向向更高的安全性的改变被认为是一个重要的临床目标。依恋取向变化的一个有前途的潜在过程是转变情绪调节趋势，在这个趋势中，个体从过度依赖自我或他人来调节情绪唤醒。本研究利用一种计算方法来研究情绪调节趋势的变化，因为这些变化表现在患者和治疗师的声音编码的情绪唤醒中。该研究检查了调节趋势的变化是否与不安全依恋水平的降低和治疗联盟的加强有关。在整个治疗的早期阶段（第 1-4 节）使用 52 个患者-治疗师二组中的 11,710 次谈话轮次检查了调节趋势的变化。研究结果表明，情绪调节倾向的变化与治疗联盟的更大加强和依恋回避水平的降低有关。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。