Attachment to possessions has been observed in the archaeological record, and is noted across historical ages, cultures, and developmental stages. It reflects a normative process that may serve a number of functions. We suggest that object attachment may be intricately linked with emotion regulation. The present review details the normative and likely evolved function that object attachment can serve in regulating emotions, as noted in the developmental and consumer science literature. We further address examples of aberrant object attachment and highlight links with emotion dysregulation by reviewing object attachment across four disorders, including Hoarding Disorder, Compulsive Buying, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Autism Spectrum conditions. Conclusions across literatures suggest that object attachment seems to assist with emotion regulation, by either upregulating positive affect or downregulating negative affect. A distinct lack of studies on specific mechanisms is present throughout research on this topic. Our review concludes with a roadmap for future research, which draws on progress in affective science and suggests the Research Domain Criteria as a launching point to inform hypotheses.

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跨发育和临床人群的对象依恋和情绪 (Dys) 调节

在考古记录中已经观察到对财产的依恋，并且在各个历史时代、文化和发展阶段都有记载。它反映了一个可能具有多种功能的规范过程。我们认为对象依恋可能与情绪调节有着错综复杂的联系。正如发展和消费者科学文献中所指出的，本综述详细介绍了对象依恋在调节情绪方面的规范性和可能进化的功能。我们通过审查四种疾病的对象依恋，包括囤积障碍、强迫性购买、边缘型人格障碍和自闭症谱系疾病，进一步解决异常对象依恋的例子并突出与情绪失调的联系。跨文献的结论表明，对象依恋似乎有助于情绪调节，通过上调积极情绪或下调消极情绪。在这个主题的整个研究中，明显缺乏对特定机制的研究。我们的评论以未来研究的路线图结束，该路线图借鉴了情感科学的进展，并建议将研究领域标准作为为假设提供信息的起点。