Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Duke Psychiatry, Civitan Building, DUMC Box 3026, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Psychol Res. 2021 Jul;85(5):1894-1908. doi: 10.1007/s00426-020-01369-2. Epub 2020 Jun 16.
Interoception refers to awareness, interpretation, and integration of sensations in the body. While interoceptive accuracy has long been regarded as a core component of emotional experience, less is known about the relationship of interoceptive accuracy and related facets of interoception to emotion regulation deficits. This study explores how interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive sensibility relate to emotion regulation in a non-clinical sample.
Undergraduate participants completed a heartbeat perception task and the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (Noticing and Body Listening sub-scales), and rated their confidence in performance on the heartbeat perception task. Participants also completed self-report measures of emotional awareness and regulation (Profile of Emotional Competence, intrapersonal emotion identification and emotion regulation sub-scales), and rated their use of different coping strategies (Brief COPE).
Noticing predicted emotion identification, emotion regulation, and the use of adaptive but not maladaptive coping strategies. Heartbeat perception accuracy did not significantly contribute to the prediction of any outcome variables.
Future work is needed to extend these findings to clinical populations. The results from this study support the use of interoceptive training interventions to promote emotional wellbeing.
内感受是指对身体感觉的意识、解释和整合。虽然内感受准确性长期以来一直被认为是情感体验的核心组成部分，但对于内感受准确性及其相关方面与情绪调节缺陷的关系，人们知之甚少。本研究探讨了非临床样本中内感受准确性和内感受敏感性与情绪调节的关系。
本科参与者完成了心跳感知任务和多维内感受意识评估（注意和身体倾听子量表），并对自己在心跳感知任务中的表现信心进行了评分。参与者还完成了情绪意识和调节的自我报告测量（情绪能力概况、人际情绪识别和情绪调节子量表），并对他们使用不同应对策略（简要应对策略）进行了评分。
注意预测了情绪识别、情绪调节以及适应性但非适应性应对策略的使用。心跳感知准确性对任何结果变量的预测都没有显著贡献。
需要进一步的工作来将这些发现扩展到临床人群。本研究的结果支持使用内感受训练干预来促进情绪健康。
