Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S Yale Ave, Tulsa, OK, 74136, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
Sci Rep. 2022 Feb 24;12(1):3123. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-07141-3.
The tendency to reflect on the emotions of self and others is a key aspect of emotional awareness (EA)-a trait widely recognized as relevant to mental health. However, the degree to which EA draws on general reflective cognition vs. specialized socio-emotional mechanisms remains unclear. Based on a synthesis of work in neuroscience and psychology, we recently proposed that EA is best understood as a learned application of domain-general cognitive processes to socio-emotional information. In this paper, we report a study in which we tested this hypothesis in 448 (125 male) individuals who completed measures of EA and both general reflective cognition and socio-emotional performance. As predicted, we observed a significant relationship between EA measures and both general reflectiveness and socio-emotional measures, with the strongest contribution from measures of the general tendency to engage in effortful, reflective cognition. This is consistent with the hypothesis that EA corresponds to the application of general reflective cognitive processes to socio-emotional signals.
反思自我和他人情绪的倾向是情绪意识（EA）的一个关键方面——这一特征被广泛认为与心理健康有关。然而，EA 在多大程度上依赖于一般的反思认知与专门的社会情感机制仍不清楚。基于神经科学和心理学的综合研究，我们最近提出，EA 最好被理解为将一般认知过程应用于社会情感信息的一种习得行为。在本文中，我们报告了一项在 448 名（125 名男性）个体中进行的研究，这些个体完成了 EA 以及一般反思认知和社会情感表现的测量。正如预测的那样，我们观察到 EA 测量值与一般反思认知和社会情感测量值之间存在显著关系，而一般的努力进行反思认知的倾向测量值的贡献最大。这与 EA 对应于将一般反思认知过程应用于社会情感信号的假设是一致的。
