TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional comprehension is not related to duration of distress from daily life events
AU - Vives, Jaume
AU - Morales, Cristina
AU - Barrantes-Vidal, Neus
AU - Ballespí, Sergi
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the National Plan for Research and Development of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (grant numbers PSI2014-56303-REDT, and PGC2018-100675-B-I00); the Support to Research Groups (grant number 2014SGR1070); and the Academia Research Award (ICREA2014) from the Catalan government.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/1/8
Y1 - 2021/1/8
N2 - The main aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent insight (i.e., mentalization referring to one’s own mental state) moderates recovering from daily life events. A total of 110 participants (84.5% women; mean age: M = 21.5; SD = 3.2) filled in the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-R), and were interviewed about impairment derived from daily life events (everyday life stresses) during the past year. Multivariate regression models were adjusted for neuroticism, sex, and socioeconomic status to analyze whether different degrees of insight moderated the relationship between the intensity and the duration of emotional distress. Results showed that the global measure of insight did not moderate recovering from daily-life distress. Regarding the subdimensions, attention to emotional reactions was related to an increased duration of distress. Results showed that, against our hypothesis, deeper comprehension of emotional reactions, operationalized here as “true insight”, was not associated to faster recovery. Limitations and recommendations for further studies are discussed considering these results.
AB - The main aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent insight (i.e., mentalization referring to one’s own mental state) moderates recovering from daily life events. A total of 110 participants (84.5% women; mean age: M = 21.5; SD = 3.2) filled in the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-R), and were interviewed about impairment derived from daily life events (everyday life stresses) during the past year. Multivariate regression models were adjusted for neuroticism, sex, and socioeconomic status to analyze whether different degrees of insight moderated the relationship between the intensity and the duration of emotional distress. Results showed that the global measure of insight did not moderate recovering from daily-life distress. Regarding the subdimensions, attention to emotional reactions was related to an increased duration of distress. Results showed that, against our hypothesis, deeper comprehension of emotional reactions, operationalized here as “true insight”, was not associated to faster recovery. Limitations and recommendations for further studies are discussed considering these results.
KW - Daily life events
KW - Emotional distress
KW - Impairment
KW - Mentalization
KW - Metacognition
KW - Neuroticism
KW - Humans
KW - Psychological Distress
KW - Male
KW - Comprehension
KW - Affect
KW - Stress, Psychological/epidemiology
KW - Female
UR - https://ddd.uab.cat/record/236140
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099382167&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph18020459
DO - 10.3390/ijerph18020459
M3 - Article
C2 - 33430055
AN - SCOPUS:85099382167
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 18
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 2
M1 - 459
ER -
