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Individual differences in the experience of meta-mood and internalizing psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

D. Yildirim ,
J. Vives  and
S. Ballespí
D. Yildirim*
Affiliation:
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Clinical And Health Psychology, Barcelona, Spain
J. Vives
Affiliation:
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Department Of Psychobiology And Methodology Of Health Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
S. Ballespí
Affiliation:
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Clinical And Health Psychology, Barcelona, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Emotional competencies such as attention to emotion and emotional clarity have been extensively studied in the literature. Depending on the context, their role shows different patterns of association with emotion regulation and psychopathological states.

Objectives

In the current study, we aim to understand when and how attention to emotion and emotional clarity are related to the co-occurrence of anxiety and depression.

Methods

Data were collected on attention to emotion, emotional clarity, anxiety, and depression. A sample of 258 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years (M = 14.6, SD = 1.7, 54.5% girls) was examined to investigate the moderating role of attention to emotion and emotional clarity on the relationship between anxiety and depression after controlling for age, gender, and socioeconomic status.

Results

showed that high levels of attention to emotion and low levels of emotional clarity were associated with increased risk for anxiety and depression. Balanced levels of attention to emotion and emotional clarity were also associated with increased risk for anxiety and depression. However, low levels of attention to emotion and high levels of emotional clarity showed no statistically significant association with the occurrence of anxiety and depression.

Conclusions

Overall, this positive imbalance of low attention to emotion and high emotional clarity appears to be the most favorable emotional states for coping with internalizing problems, suggesting less harmful effects of attention to emotion.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

Anxietycomorbidityemotional self-awarenessDepression
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S705
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