The Developmental Characteristics and Relationship between Preschool Teachers’ Emotional Experience and Emotional Awareness

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 492-501
Author(s):  
Zhang Aozi ◽  
Shi Xiaojia ◽  
Niu Xiao ◽  
Qu Fangbing
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Teachers ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Developmental Characteristics

The construction of emotional experience requires the integration of implicit and explicit emotional processes

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Quirin ◽  
Richard D. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Emotional Processes ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

AbstractAlthough we agree that a constructivist approach to emotional experience makes sense, we propose that implicit (visceromotor and somatomotor) emotional processes are dissociable from explicit (attention and reflection) emotional processes, and that the conscious experience of emotion requires an integration of the two. Assessments of implicit emotion and emotional awareness can be helpful in the neuroscientific investigation of emotion.

Neural Correlates of Levels of Emotional Awareness: Evidence of an Interaction between Emotion and Attention in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Lane ◽  
Eric M. Reiman ◽  
Beatrice Axelrod ◽  
Lang-Sheng Yun ◽  
Andrew Holmes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Response Selection ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Positron Emission ◽  
Conjunction Analysis

Recent functional imaging studies have begun to identify the neural correlates of emotion in healthy volunteers. However, studies to date have not differentially addressed the brain areas associated with the perception, experience, or expression of emotion during emotional arousal. To explore the neural correlates of emotional experience, we used positron emission tomography (PET) and 15O-water to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF) in 12 healthy women during film- and recall-induced emotion and correlated CBF changes attributable to emotion with subjects' scores on the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS), a measure of individual differences in the capacity to experience emotion in a differentiated and complex way. A conjunction analysis revealed that the correla-tions between LEAS and CBF during film- and recall-induced emotion overlapped significantly (z = 3.74, p < 0.001) in Brod-mann's area 24 of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). This finding suggests that individual differences in the ability to accurately detect emotional signals interoceptively or exteroceptively may at least in part be a function of the degree to which the ACC participates in the experiential processing and response to emotion cues. To the extent that this finding is consistent with the functions of the ACC involving attention and response selection, it suggests that this neural correlate of conscious emotional experience is not exclusive to emotion.

scholarly journals Expertise as a unifying framework for individual differences in the mental representation of emotional experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Hoemann ◽  
Catherine Nielson ◽  
Ashley Yuen ◽  
Jacob Gurera ◽  
Karen Quigley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Psychological Constructs ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Review Procedure ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

Expertise refers to outstanding skill or ability in a particular domain. In the domain of emotion, expertise refers to the observation that some people are better at a range of competencies related to understanding, experiencing and managing emotions, and these competencies may help them lead healthier lives. Individual differences in emotional expertise are represented by a wide variety of psychological constructs, including emotional awareness, emotional clarity, emotional complexity, emotional granularity, and emotional intelligence. These constructs derive from different theoretical perspectives, highlight different competencies, and are operationalized and measured in different ways. The full set of relationships between these constructs has not yet been considered, hindering scientific progress and the translation of these findings to aid mental and physical well-being. In this paper, we use a scoping review procedure to integrate these constructs within a shared conceptual space. Using domain-general accounts of expertise as a guide, we build a unifying framework for emotional expertise, and apply this to constructs that describe how people understand and experience their own emotions. Our approach offers opportunities to identify potential underlying mechanisms of individual differences in emotion, thereby encouraging future research on those mechanisms as well as on educational or clinical interventions.

scholarly journals Different Dimensions of Affective Processing in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Berens ◽  
Rainer Schaefert ◽  
Johannes C. Ehrenthal ◽  
David Baumeister ◽  
Wolfgang Eich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Affective Processing ◽  
Emotional Communication ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Irritable Bowel

Objective: Deficits in affective processing are associated with impairments in both mental and physical health. The role of affective processing in patients with functional somatic complaints such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) remains unclear. Most studies have focused on the capacity for emotional awareness and expression, but neglect other dimensions of affective processing. Therefore, this study aimed to systematically analyze differences in six different dimensions of affective processing between patients with IBS and healthy controls (HCs). Additionally, we exploratively investigated the impact of IBS symptom severity, psychological distress, and attachment styles on affective processing in IBS.Methods: A controlled cross-sectional multi-center study was conducted. Overall, 127 patients with IBS were compared with 127 matched HCs using multivariate analysis of variances. Affective processing was operationalized in line with the affect cascade model on six specific dimensions: emotional experience, emotional awareness, affect tolerance, affect differentiation, affect regulation, and emotional communication. They were measured using two subscales of the Mentalizing Questionnaire (MZQ) and four subscales of the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis–Structure Questionnaire (OPD-SQ). Linear regression analysis was used to investigate the influence of IBS symptom severity (IBS-Severity Scoring System, IBS-SSS), depression (Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-9), anxiety (General Anxiety Disorder, GAD-7), and anxious and avoidant attachment styles (Experiences in Close Relationships Scale, ECR-RD12) on the different dimensions of affective processing in IBS.Results: Patients with IBS compared to HCs showed deficits in all six dimensions of affective processing. Deficits were largest for affect tolerance (d = 0.849) and lowest for emotional experience (d = 0.222) and emotional awareness (d = 0.420). Moderate effect sizes were found for affect differentiation (d = 0.773), emotional communication (d = 0.665), and affect regulation (d = 0.552). Moreover, explorative analyses indicated that affective processing in patients with IBS was significantly influenced by levels of anxiety and insecure attachment.Conclusion: The results indicate a specific pattern of affective processing abilities in patients with IBS. The deficits in affective processing are more prominent in the area of understanding and tolerating difficult affective states than experiencing affective states. This opens interesting perspectives for the development of specific psychotherapeutic interventions.Clinical Trial Registration: DRKS00011685.

The structure of emotional experience and its relation to trait emotional awareness: A theoretical review.

Emotion ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 670-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Smith ◽  
William D. S. Killgore ◽  
Richard D. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Emotional Awareness

Developmental Characteristics of Emotional Experience

1971 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theron Alexander ◽  
Judith Stoyle ◽  
James Roberge ◽  
Paul Leaverton
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Developmental Characteristics

scholarly journals Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Abilities, Emotion Processing and the Role of Early Life Stress in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantina Atanasova ◽  
Tobias Lotter ◽  
Wolfgang Reindl ◽  
Stefanie Lis
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Interoceptive Awareness ◽  
Bowel Diseases ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Valence And Arousal ◽  
Interoceptive Accuracy

Perception of internal bodily sensations includes three dissociable processes: interoceptive accuracy, interoceptive sensibility, and interoceptive awareness. Interoceptive abilities play a crucial role in emotion processing and impairments of these processes have been reported in several psychiatric disorders. Studies investigating interoceptive abilities and their role in emotional experience in individuals with somatic disorders such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are sparse. Recent findings suggested an association between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and the development of gastrointestinal disorders. The aim of the current study was to investigate the associations between the different dimensions of interoception and emotional processing in IBD while taking ACE into account. We recruited IBD patients in clinical remission (n = 35) and 35 healthy control participants (HC) matched for age, education and IQ. Interoception was measured as a three-dimensional construct. Interoceptive accuracy was assessed with the heartbeat tracking task and interoceptive sensibility with a self-report measure (Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness questionnaire). Emotional processing was measured using an experimental task, where participants were asked to rate the subjectively perceived valence and arousal when presented with positive, neutral and negative visual stimuli. IBD patients significantly differed in two interoceptive sensibility domains, Emotional awareness and Not-distracting. Patients reported greater awareness of the connection between bodily sensations and emotional states, while showing a stronger tendency to use distraction from unpleasant sensations compared with HC. Higher emotional awareness was linked to higher perceived intensity and arousal of negative stimuli. The strength of this relation was dependent on the severity of ACE, with severer traumatization being associated with a stronger association between emotional awareness and perceived valence and arousal. Our findings suggest that it is the subjective component of interoception, especially the one assessing interoceptive abilities within the scope of emotional experience, which affects emotional processing in IBD. This is the first study providing evidence that IBD patients did not differ in their perception of visceral signals per se but only in the subjective ability to attribute certain physical sensations to physiological manifestations of emotions. Our findings support the hypothesis that ACE affect the association between interoception and emotional processing.

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