Associations Among in-The-Moment Emotional Clarity, Emotion Regulation, and Psychopathology in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

ABSTRACT: Past research showed that lower emotional clarity (EC) was associated with more maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) and psychopathology, such as obsessive-compulsive (OC) disorder (OCD). However, most of these studies used single time-point, retrospective self-reports. Next to high risk for recall biases and low ecological validity, this assessment method is only able to capture between-person differences (i.e., individuals generally high vs. low in EC). It therefore neglects temporal variations in EC and resulting within-person differences (i.e., moments with higher-than-usual vs. lower-than-usual EC within one individual). To address this gap, our study uses intensive longitudinal data based on a 6-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA) design with up to six measurements daily. In tot

SUBMITTER: Hohensee N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12638152 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature