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

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dc.contributor.author	Subic-Wrana, Claudia	-
dc.contributor.author	Beutel, Manfred E.	-
dc.contributor.author	Brähler, Elmar	-
dc.contributor.author	Stöbel-Richter, Yve	-
dc.contributor.author	Knebel, Achim	-
dc.contributor.author	Lane, Richard D.	-
dc.contributor.author	Wiltink, Jörg	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-10T08:11:57Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-10-10T08:11:57Z	-
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7938	-
dc.description.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 community study. The questionnaire data were analyzed with regard to the level of emotional awareness. RESULTS: LEAS scores were independent from depression, but related to self-reported anxiety. Although of small or medium effect size, different correlational patters between emotion regulation strategies and negative affectivity were related to implict and explict levels of emotional awareness. In participants with implicit emotional awareness, suppression was related to higher anxiety and depression, whereas in participants with explicit emotional awareness, in addition to a positive relationship of suppression and depression, we found a negative relationship of reappraisal to depression. These findings were independent of age. In women high use of suppression and little use of reappraisal were more strongly related to negative affect than in men. DISCUSSION: Our first findings suggest that conscious awareness of emotions may be a precondition for the use of reappraisal as an adaptive emotion regulation strategy. They encourage further research in the relation between subconsious and conscious emotional awareness and the prefarance of adaptive or maladaptive emotion regulation strategies The correlational trends found in a representative sample of the general population may become more pronounced in clinical samples.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	DFG, Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	610 Medizin	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	610 Medical sciences	en_GB
dc.title	How is emotional awareness related to emotion regulation strategies and self-reported negative affect in the general population?	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7923	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 04 Medizin	de
jgu.organisation.number	2700	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	PLoS one	de
jgu.journal.volume	9	de
jgu.journal.issue	3	de
jgu.pages.alternative	e91846	de
jgu.publisher.year	2014	-
jgu.publisher.name	PLoS	de
jgu.publisher.place	Lawrence, Kan.	de
jgu.publisher.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091846	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1932-6203	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.identifier.pmid	24637792
jgu.subject.ddccode	610	de
opus.date.modified	2018-08-08T08:50:19Z
opus.subject.dfgcode	00-000
opus.organisation.string	FB 04: Medizin: Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie	de_DE
opus.identifier.opusid	27344
opus.importsource	pubmed
opus.institute.number	0434
opus.metadataonly	false
opus.type.contenttype	Keine	de_DE
opus.type.contenttype	None	en_EN
opus.affiliated	Subic-Wrana, Claudia
opus.affiliated	Beutel, Manfred E.
opus.affiliated	Wiltink, Jörg
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1371/journal.pone.0091846	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
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