Emotional Coregulation in Close Relationships

Butler, Emily A.; Randall, Ashley K.

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“…The term coregulation has many meanings, and there exists more theoretical speculation about its nature than empirical data (Butler & Randall, 2013). At its core, however, the idea of biological interdependence presents a potential way in which relationships may be health protective.…”

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“…The primary contribution of the TIES model is that it operationalizes the specific ways in which these processes may unfold, and many of these processes have the potential to inform our understanding of the mechanisms linking relationships to distal health outcomes. For example, morphostatic covariation refers to between-partner covariation around a stable set point (Butler & Randall, 2013). Here we might study, for example, ways in which one person's daily subjective emotional experience limits the range of his/her partner's autonomic functioning, studied concurrently or in some lagged fashion (e.g., see Figure 1 in Butler, 2011).…”

Section: Social Support-stress Buffering and Main Effects (Cohen And Wimentioning

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Relationships and Health: The Critical Role of Affective Science

Sbarra

Coan

2018

Emotion Review

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High-quality social relationships predict a range of positive health outcomes, but no broadly accepted theory can explain the mechanisms of action in this area. The central argument of this paper is that affective science can provide keys for integrating the diverse array of theoretical models concerning relationships and health. From nine prominent theories, we cull four components of relational affect that link social resources to healthrelated outcomes. This component model holds promise for integrating research from the different theoretical perspectives and for generating new, mechanistic questions about connection between relationships and health. The paper closes by outlining three empirical study ideas that illustrate ways in which the different components can be studied together in the context of mechanism-focused research.

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Section: Social Support-stress Buffering and Main Effects (Cohen And Wimentioning

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Relationships and Health: The Critical Role of Affective Science

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Coan

2018

Emotion Review

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“…Emotional interdependence between social partners is the defining feature of relationships and manifests as coordinated patterns of emotional experience and expression (Butler, 2011;Butler & Randall, 2013). A wide range of different forms of emotional coordination have been investigated, but they have usually been referred to by more specific terms, such as negative reciprocity (Gottman, 1979), synchrony (Saxbe & Repetti, 2010), or transmission (Larson & Almeida, 1999).…”

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Cooperating with your romantic partner

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Romantic partners' emotions become coordinated in various ways and this may have implications for well-being (Butler (2011) Temporal interpersonal emotion systems: The ''TIES'' that form relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15,. The present study uses a community sample of 44 committed heterosexual couples to examine whether cooperation, a generally beneficial relational process, is associated with emotional coordination and whether the pattern differs when men's emotions are coordinated with their female partners' prior emotions or vice versa. Using behavioral observations of cooperation and second-to-second measures of emotional experience during a face-to-face conversation, men showed the most positive emotional experience at high levels of mutual cooperation. As predicted, cooperation was associated with different coordination patterns for men and women, with high mutual cooperation predicting an inphase pattern for men (emotions changing in unison with their partners) and an antiphase pattern for women (emotions changing in opposite directions from their partners). Our results suggest that men and women may experience cooperation differently, despite engaging in similar behaviors.

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“…This dyadic emotional-coregulation system is dynamic, with changing affective arousal and dampening aimed at maintaining an optimal emotional state (Butler and Randall 2013). Children's emotion regulation development arises out of repeated emotional experiences with their caregivers; this dyadic regulation lays the foundation for subsequent self-regulation (Sroufe 1996).…”

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Emotion Coregulation in Mother-Child Dyads: A Dynamic Systems Analysis of Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Garfin

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Few studies have investigated patterns of emotion coregulation in families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or contrasted the ways in which their emotion coregulation patterns differ from families of typically developing (TD) children. To address this gap, we used a dynamic systems approach to compare flexible structure and emotional content of coregulation between mothers and children (3-7 years) with ASD (n = 47) and TD children (n = 26). Mother-child play interactions in the home were videotaped and emotion-engagement states were coded in micro-level 5-s intervals based on behavioral and affective expressions. Analyses indicated that mother-child dyads in the ASD group spent more time than dyads in the TD group in mismatched emotion-engagement states (e.g., child negative/mother positive), and children with ASD spent more time than TD children engaged exclusively with objects. Mother-child dyads in the TD group stayed longer in mutual positive engagement states. Compared to dyads in the TD group, mother-child dyads in the ASD group exhibited greater flexibility (i.e., a wider range of emotional-engagement states, more frequent changes in states, and less time in each state). These findings suggest that mothers and their children with ASD do not sustain dyadic positive engagement patterns in a low-stress environment. Findings confirmed the preference of children with ASD for objects over social partners, even when they are at home with their mothers, and elucidated a challenging mother-child interactional style. Results have implications for mother-child interventions aimed at regulating negative emotional states and sustaining positive ones in families raising children with ASD.

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Emotional Coregulation in Close Relationships

Cited by 387 publications

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Relationships and Health: The Critical Role of Affective Science

Relationships and Health: The Critical Role of Affective Science

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Emotion Coregulation in Mother-Child Dyads: A Dynamic Systems Analysis of Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

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