Predicting real-world emotion and health from spontaneously assessed linguistic distancing using novel scalable technology.

ABSTRACT: Individuals who are better at regulating their emotions have been shown to have better physical and mental health outcomes. One promising emotion regulation strategy is psychological distancing, which involves appraising a stimulus with objectivity or spatial/temporal distance. Language-based psychological distancing (linguistic distancing [LD]) refers to the degree to which one implements psychological distancing naturally via language. A crucial, underexamined mechanism that may account for real-world emotion and health self-reports is spontaneous (i.e., implicit) LD. Using HealthSense, a novel, scalable, mobile health assessment application, we collected lexical transcriptions for personally specific negative and positive events as well as emotion and health-relevant data over 14 days (

SUBMITTER: Shahane AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10439973 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature