Gender differences in cognitive and affective interpersonal emotion regulation in couples: an fNIRS hyperscanning.

ABSTRACT: Emotion regulation is vital in maintaining romantic relationships in couples. Although gender differences exist in cognitive and affective strategies during 'intrapersonal' emotion regulation, it is unclear how gender differences through affective bonds work in 'interpersonal' emotion regulation (IER) in couples. Thirty couple dyads and 30 stranger dyads underwent functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning recordings when targets complied with their partner's cognitive engagement (CE) and affective engagement (AE) strategies after viewing sad and neutral videos. Behaviorally, for males, CE was less effective than AE in both groups, but little difference occurred for females between AE and CE. For couples, Granger causality analysis showed that male targets had less neural activity

SUBMITTER: Zhang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10612568 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature