"social regulation"

Emotional empathy in the social regulation of distress: a dyadic approach

Although research suggests distressed individuals benefit from others' empathy, it is unclear how an individual's level of empathy influences dyadic responses during emotional situations. In the current study, female participants (N = 140; 70 dyads) …

Emotion recognition and reactivity in persons with neurodegenerative disease are differentially associated with caregiver health

Background and Objectives: Motivated by the high rates of health problems found among caregivers of persons with neurodegenerative disease, we examined associations between deficits in two aspects of care recipients’ socioemotional functioning and …

Empathic accuracy deficits in patients with neurodegenerative disease: Association with caregiver depression

Objectives: To investigate whether deficits in empathic accuracy (i.e., ability to recognize emotion in others) in patients with neurodegenerative disease are associated with greater depression in their caregivers. Design: Two cross-sectional …

Subjective general health and the social regulation of hypothalamic activity

Objective Social support is associated with better health. This association may be partly mediated through the social regulation of adrenomedullary activity related to poor cardiovascular health and glucocorticoid activity known to inhibit immune …

Our social baseline: The role of social proximity in economy of action

In this chapter, we review the ways in which social relationships help offset the cost of many of life’s effortful activities, including the activities of the human brain. In our discussion, we emphasize the management by social proximity and …

Inter-parent aggression as a precursor to disengagement coping in emerging adulthood: The buffering role of friendship competence

Using multi-informant data drawn from a prospective study involving 184 youth, mother-perpetrated and father-perpetrated partner aggression during early adolescence (the age of 13) was examined as a predictor of five types of disengagement coping …