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Meta-emotions in daily life: Associations with emotional awareness and depression

Bailen, Natasha H., Wu, Haijing, Thompson, Renee J.·2019·Emotion

Abstract

= 79) to complete 7 days of experience sampling and a self-report measure of depressive severity. At each survey, they indicated current attention to emotion, clarity of emotion, and whether and what kind of meta-emotional experience they were having. Meta-emotional experiences were categorized as negative-negative (NN), negative-positive (NP), positive-negative (PN) or positive-positive (PP). Approximately 53% of participants reported at least 1 meta-emotional experience. Meta-emotional experiences were reported about twice a week; negative-negative experiences were most frequent. Using multilevel modeling, we found that although attention to and clarity of emotion each individually positively predicted the likelihood of meta-emotional experiences, only attention to emotion explained unique variance. Higher depressive severity was associated with higher likelihood of meta-emotional experiences and specifically negative-negative experiences. Most adults experienced meta-emotions, especially during moments of high attention to emotion, and negative-negative experiences were positively associated with depressive severity. These findings are an important step forward in understanding individual and within-person differences in reactions to emotional experience. Implications for theories of emotion generation and regulation are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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Authors
Bailen, N. H., Wu, H., & Thompson, R. J.
Venue
Emotion
Published
2019-08
Volume
19
Issue
5
Pages
776-787
ISSN
  • 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
  • 1931-1516
OpenAlex
W2886017243
Cited by
70
References
68
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 7
FWCI
5.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Emotion (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Washington University in St. Louis
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords
meta-emotion, attention to emotion, emotional clarity, emotional awareness, depression, depression severity, ecological momentary assessment, emotion regulation, emotion generation
MeSH terms
Metacognition, Activities of Daily Living, Adult, Aged, Depression, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Young Adult

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