Interoceptive attention facilitates emotion regulation strategy use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Perception of bodily signals-or interoception-has been suggested to facilitate individuals' habitual use of emotion regulation (ER) strategies and to guide the flexible deployment of specific ER strategies. Previous research has shown that the emotional intensity of stimuli modulates regulatory choice between disengagement (i.e., distraction) and engagement strategies (i.e., reappraisal).

Method

This study used experience-sampling methods to investigate the role of interoceptive attention in dynamic changes in ER strategies. Healthy participants first completed one-time measurements of ER strategies, emotional awareness and interoceptive attention in the lab and then reported on negative events and use of strategies including reappraisal and distraction, throughou

SUBMITTER: Tan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9512845 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature