How is emotional awareness related to emotion regulation strategies and self-reported negative affect in the general population?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) as a performance task discriminates between implicit or subconscious and explicit or conscious levels of emotional awareness. An impaired awareness of one's feeling states may influence emotion regulation strategies and self-reports of negative emotions. To determine this influence, we applied the LEAS and self-report measures for emotion regulation strategies and negative affect in a representative sample of the German general population.

Sample and methods

A short version of the LEAS, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), assessing reappraisal and suppression as emotion regulation strategies, were presented to N = 2524 participants of a representative German

SUBMITTER: Subic-Wrana C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3956759 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature