Attending to the Body and the Clock: Interoceptive Awareness and Time Perception Accuracy Predict Emotion Regulation Capacities
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The current investigation seeks to elucidate the relationship of interoceptive awareness (i.e., the adaptive capacity to attend to and interpret potentially meaningful physiological signals), decentering (i.e., the ability to create healthy distance from emotional stimuli), depression symptoms, and emotion regulation capacities.We assessed interoceptive awareness using a well-established heartbeat perception task, which measures an individual's accuracy in counting their heartbeats over variable periods of time, and includes a time perception accuracy control task.In a small analogue sample (N = 19), we examined the relationship between interoceptive awareness, time perception, self-reported depression symptoms and emotion regulation capacities (i.e., trait cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression), trait mindfulness, and an objective measure of implicit emotion regulation (i.e., assessing the capacity to automatically create psychological distance, or "decenter," from distressing stimuli).We expected interoceptive awareness to be positively associated with adaptive emotion regulation and decentering.We also expected depression symptoms to be negatively associated with decentering and interoceptive awareness.Results revealed that interoceptive awareness was not associated with adaptive emotion regulation or decentering, while depression was not significantly correlated with decentering and was negatively associated with interoceptive awareness, suggesting a nuanced relationship.
Author: Shannon McCreary
Institution: Kent State University
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2201856188