Physiological synchrony during meaningful moments of interaction: an exploratory study.

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q1 EDUCATION, SPECIAL

Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-30 DOI:10.3109/13668250.2025.2572287

Wieneke Penninga, Alexander H C Hendriks, Hedwig J A Van Bakel, Maarten Wijnants, Peter C de Looff, Petri J C M Embregts

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Abstract

Background: The idiosyncratic ways of communication of people with profound intellectual disabilities complicate meaningful interactions between them and support staff. A physiological explication of their interplay may help to better understand meaningful contact.

Method: Five staff-client-dyads were filmed during dyadic interactions, while their heart rate (HR) and electrodermal activity (EDA) were measured. HR and EDA synchrony were explored via Cross Recurrence Quantification analyses (CRQA), and the associations between physiological synchrony and meaningfulness as experienced by support staff were investigated.

Results: In the five dyads, HR synchrony was high, while EDA synchrony differed between dyads. The association between HR and/or EDA synchrony and experienced meaningfulness showed inconsistent patterns across dyads and yielded weak, non-significant pooled correlations in the meta-analytic analyses.

Conclusion: The association between physiological synchrony and meaningfulness was neither confirmed nor rejected. Follow-up research is needed to find out whether these physiological measures can be applied to quantify experienced meaningfulness.

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有意义的互动时刻的生理同步性：一项探索性研究。

背景：重度智障人士特有的沟通方式使他们与支持人员之间有意义的互动复杂化。对它们相互作用的生理解释可能有助于更好地理解有意义的接触。方法：对5名工作人员-客户二人组进行拍摄，测量其心率（HR）和皮电活动（EDA）。通过交叉递归量化分析（CRQA）探讨了HR和EDA的同步性，并研究了生理同步性与支持人员体验的意义性之间的关系。结果：5组患者HR同步性较高，而EDA同步性存在差异。在meta分析中，HR和/或EDA同步性与体验意义之间的关联在两组中显示出不一致的模式，并且产生了弱的、不显著的汇总相关性。结论：生理同步性与意义性之间的关系既不被证实也不被否定。这些生理测量是否可以用于量化体验意义还需要后续研究。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability (formerly the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities) is the official journal of the Australasian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability (ASSID). JIDD is an international, multidisciplinary journal in the field of intellectual and developmental disability. The journal publishes original qualitative and quantitative research papers, literature reviews, conceptual articles, brief reports, case reports, data briefs, and opinions and perspectives.