Emotion regulation repertoires in trauma-exposed college students: Associations with PTSD symptoms, emotional awareness, and emotional clarity.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron P. Pugach ◽  
Blair E. Wisco
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Emotional Clarity

Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Emotional Clarity and Attention to Emotions

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Tyler Boden ◽  
Renee J. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Publication Bias ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Emotional Clarity ◽  
Study Heterogeneity

Emotional clarity and attention to emotions represent the extent to which people understand and attend to their own emotions, respectively, and are broad facets of emotional awareness, alexithymia, and emotional intelligence. To examine the extent to which these two constructs are associated, we conducted a meta-analysis of studies including well-validated self-report measures of trait clarity and attention to emotion. Clarity and attention were moderately, positively associated. Assessment instrument, but not sample gender or age, moderated the association between clarity and attention. Analyses of between-study heterogeneity and publication bias suggested that results were valid and generalizable. We discuss potential causes of the association between clarity and attention, and elaborate on the implications of our results for emotion regulation, well-being, and psychopathology.

scholarly journals Neural Basis of Smoking-Related Difficulties in Emotion Regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 409-416
Author(s):  
Paul Faulkner ◽  
Andy C Dean ◽  
Dara G Ghahremani ◽  
Edythe D London
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emotional Clarity

Abstract Background Negative emotional states contribute to cigarette smoking, and difficulties in regulating these states can hinder smoking cessation. Understanding the neural bases of these difficulties in smokers may facilitate development of novel therapies for Tobacco Use Disorder. Methods Thirty-seven participants (18 smokers, 19 nonsmokers; 16–21 years old) completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), which is comprised of 6 subscales (lack of emotional clarity, lack of emotional awareness, limited access to emotion regulation strategies, nonacceptance of emotional responses, difficulties engaging in goal-directed behaviors, and impulse control difficulties) that combine to provide a total score. Participants also underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine resting-state functional connectivity of the amygdala. Separate ANOVAs were used to determine group differences in self-reports on the DERS. Voxel-wise linear mixed models were performed to determine whether group influenced relationships between whole-brain functional connectivity of the amygdala and scores on the DERS. Results Compared with nonsmokers, smokers reported greater difficulties in emotion regulation, denoted by higher total scores on the DERS. Group differences were observed on a subscale of lack of emotional clarity, but no other subscale differences on the DERS were observed. Nonsmokers exhibited a greater negative correlation than smokers between lack of emotional clarity scores and connectivity of the amygdala with the left inferior frontal gyrus. Finally, this amygdala-to-left inferior frontal gyrus connectivity was weaker in smokers than in nonsmokers. Conclusions These findings suggest that difficulties in emotion regulation in smokers are at least partially due to lack of emotional clarity. Given the role of the inferior frontal gyrus in understanding emotional states, strengthening connectivity between the amygdala and the inferior frontal gyrus may improve emotional clarity to help smokers regulate their negative emotions, thereby improving their ability to quit smoking.

scholarly journals Subjective emotional arousal: an explorative study on the role of gender, age, intensity, emotion regulation difficulties, depression and anxiety symptoms, and meta-emotion

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (7) ◽  
pp. 1857-1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Deckert ◽  
Michaela Schmoeger ◽  
Eduard Auff ◽  
Ulrike Willinger
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Impulse Control ◽  
Emotional Arousal ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Emotional Difficulties ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Emotional Clarity

Abstract Subjective emotional arousal in typically developing adults was investigated in an explorative study. 177 participants (20–70 years) rated facial expressions and words for self-experienced arousal and perceived intensity, and completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS-D). Exclusion criteria were psychiatric or neurological diseases, or clinically relevant scores in the HADS-D. Arousal regarding faces and words was significantly predicted by emotional clarity. Separate analyses showed following significant results: arousal regarding faces and arousal regarding words constantly predicted each other; negative faces were predicted by age and intensity; neutral faces by gender and impulse control; positive faces by gender and intensity; negative words by emotional clarity; and neutral words by gender. Males showed higher arousal scores than females regarding neutral faces and neutral words; for the other arousal scores, no explicit group differences were shown. Cluster analysis yielded three distinguished emotional characteristics groups: “emotional difficulties disposition group” (mainly females; highest emotion regulation difficulties, depression and anxiety scores; by trend highest arousal), “low emotional awareness group” (exclusively males; lowest awareness regarding currently experienced emotions; by trend intermediate arousal), and a “low emotional difficulties group” (exclusively females; lowest values throughout). No age effect was shown. Results suggest that arousal elicited by facial expressions and words are specialized parts of a greater emotional processing system and that typically developing adults show some kind of stable, modality-unspecific dispositional baseline of emotional arousal. Emotional awareness and clarity, and impulse control probably are trait aspects of emotion regulation that influence emotional arousal in typically developing adults and can be regarded as aspects of meta-emotion. Different emotional personality styles were shown between as well as within gender groups.

Trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms among heavy-drinking college students

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Monahan ◽  
Meghan E. McDevitt-Murphy ◽  
James G. Murphy ◽  
Matthew P. Martens ◽  
Katherine L. Bracken ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Trauma Exposure ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms
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