Suslow Thomas, Kersting Anette
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 6;13:819902. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819902. eCollection 2022.
Attention to emotions and emotional clarity are core dimensions of individual differences in emotion awareness. Findings from prior research based on self-report indicate that attention to and recognition of one's own emotions are related to attention to and recognition of other people's emotions. In the present experimental study, we examined the relations of attention to and clarity of emotions with the efficiency of facial affect perception. Moreover, it was explored whether attention to and clarity of emotions are linked to negative interpretations of facial expressions. A perception of facial expressions (PFE) task based on schematic faces with neutral, ambiguous, or unambiguous emotional expressions and a gender decision task were administered to healthy individuals along with measures of emotion awareness, state and trait anxiety, depression, and verbal intelligence. Participants had to decide how much the faces express six basic affects. Evaluative ratings and decision latencies were analyzed. Attention to feelings was negatively correlated with evaluative decision latency, whereas clarity of feelings was not related to decision latency in the PFE task. Attention to feelings was positively correlated with the perception of negative affects in ambiguous faces. Attention to feelings and emotional clarity were not related to gender decision latency. According to our results, dispositional attention to feelings goes along with an enhanced efficiency of facial affect perception. Habitually paying attention to one's own emotions may facilitate processing of external emotional information. Preliminary evidence was obtained suggesting a relationship of dispositional attention to feelings with negative interpretations of facial expressions.
对情绪的关注和情绪清晰度是情绪意识个体差异的核心维度。先前基于自我报告的研究结果表明，对自身情绪的关注和识别与对他人情绪的关注和识别相关。在本实验研究中，我们考察了对情绪的关注和清晰度与面部表情感知效率之间的关系。此外，还探究了对情绪的关注和清晰度是否与对面部表情的消极解读有关。我们对健康个体进行了一项基于具有中性、模糊或明确情绪表情的示意性面孔的面部表情感知（PFE）任务和一项性别判断任务，并测量了他们的情绪意识、状态和特质焦虑、抑郁以及语言智力。参与者必须判断这些面孔表达六种基本情绪的程度。分析了评价评分和决策潜伏期。在PFE任务中，对感受的关注与评价性决策潜伏期呈负相关，而感受清晰度与决策潜伏期无关。对感受的关注与对模糊面孔中负面情绪的感知呈正相关。对感受的关注和情绪清晰度与性别判断潜伏期无关。根据我们的结果，对感受的倾向性关注与面部表情感知效率的提高相关。习惯性地关注自己的情绪可能有助于处理外部情绪信息。我们获得了初步证据，表明对感受的倾向性关注与对面部表情的消极解读之间存在关联。
