ABSTRACT

It appears that social information processing is negatively affected by inflammation, but extant research is primarily experimental and comes from laboratory-based manipulations of inflammatory states. We aimed to examine interactions between inflammation, stressful life events, and positive memories of childhood relations with parents in relation to social information processing in 201 adults. We hypothesized that increased inflammation and stressful life events would be associated with greater hostile social information processing, but that positive memories of childhood relations with parents would moderate both relations. Results indicated that high IL-6 levels and stressful life events were significantly associated with direct and hostile social information processing. Positive memories of childhood relations with parents attenuated the link between stressful life events and social information processing. Findings suggest that both immune function and environmental stressors are related to social information processing and that positive memories of childhood relations exert some buffering effect.

摘要

似乎社会信息处理受到炎症的负面影响，但现有的研究主要是实验性的，并且来自基于实验室的炎症状态操作。我们旨在检查炎症、压力性生活事件和童年与父母关系的积极记忆与 201 名成年人的社会信息处理之间的相互作用。我们假设炎症和压力性生活事件的增加与更大的敌对社会信息处理有关，但童年与父母关系的积极记忆会缓和这两种关系。结果表明，高 IL-6 水平和压力性生活事件与直接和敌对的社会信息处理显着相关。童年时期与父母关系的积极记忆削弱了压力生活事件与社会信息处理之间的联系。研究结果表明，免疫功能和环境压力源都与社会信息处理有关，对童年关系的积极记忆发挥了一定的缓冲作用。