Table 6.
Overview of reviewed studies (in alphabetical order) on attachment-related differences in emotion regulation measured by responses of biochemistry (n = 6).
| Author/s (Year) | Country | Sample Size |
Population | Gender | Attachment Measures | Measurement of Biochemistry |
Type of Stressor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobst et al. [132] (2016) | Germany | 41 | Clinical | Female | AAP | Cortisol, Oxytocin | Social exclusion (cyberball game) |
| Karabatsiakis et al. [133] (2022) | Germany | 26 | Healthy | Male | AAP | Cortisol, DHEA, Oxytocin |
Pictures of AAP |
| Krause et al. [134] (2016) | Germany | 44 | Healthy | Female | AAP | Cortisol, Oxytocin | Pictures of AAP |
| Petrowski et al. [135] (2017) | Germany | 98 | Healthy | Mixed | AAP | Cortisol | Trier Social Stress Test |
| Rifkin-Graboi [136] (2008) | USA | 37 | Healthy | Male | AAI | Cortisol | Simulated interpersonal stress |
| * Strathearn et al. [128] (2009) | USA | 30 | Healthy | Female | AAI | Oxytocin | Pictures of smiling infant faces |
Legend—AAI (Adult Attachment Interview); AAP (Adult Attachment Projective Picture System); DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone). * This study measured the emotion regulation response in both biochemistry and central physiology (fMRI).