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13 - Implications of Parasympathetic Nervous System Functioning for Affect Regulation and Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2010

By
Lisa M. Diamond  and
Christopher P. Fagundes
Edited by
Frank D. Fincham  and
Ming Cui
Frank D. Fincham
Affiliation:
Florida State University
Ming Cui
Affiliation:
Florida State University
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Summary

The romantic relationships of emerging adulthood (EA) pose a range of new psychological and emotional challenges that are unique to this stage of life. As youths make the transition from the casual romantic ties of adolescence to more serious and substantive relationships, the “stakes” of day-to-day relational maintenance become progressively higher. Furthermore, the greater depth and complexity of emerging adults' romantic ties place new demands on skills related to conflict resolution, negotiation, responsiveness, accommodation, sacrifice, and compromise. During this stage of life, romance is no longer “just fun” – the work of building and sustaining a long-term pair bond has begun.

Effective self-regulation, more generally, and affect regulation, in particular, are critical to this transition. Self-regulation is broadly defined as the process through which people control and correct their own goal-directed behavior (Aspinwall, 2001; Baumeister, Schmeichel, Vohs, Kruglanski, & Higgins, 2007). Affect regulation refers to the internal and transactional processes through which individuals modulate the experience or expression of positive and negative affect (Gross, 1999; Larsen, 2000). Patterns of affect regulation shape the ways in which individuals perceive, appraise, and react to emotionally relevant relationship experiences (reviewed in Diamond & Hicks, 2004). They are also fundamentally integrated with broader self-regulatory processes, including executive functioning, response inhibition, and the regulation of attention (Koole, 2009; Posner & Rothbart, 2007); hence individual differences in emerging adults' affect-regulatory capacities influence the initial direction and long-term course of their romantic relationship trajectories.

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Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood , pp. 252 - 272
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