Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
South East European Research Center, SEERC, Thessaloniki, Greece.
PLoS One. 2023 Aug 15;18(8):e0289948. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289948. eCollection 2023.
Self- disgust is an adverse self-conscious emotion that plays an important role in psychopathology and well-being. However, self-disgust has received little attention in the emotion literature, therefore our understanding of the processes underlying the experience of self-disgust is relatively scarce, although neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies support the idea that this emotion may heavily rely on frontal lobe-related cognition. To test this hypothesis, in two studies we investigated the relationship between state and trait levels of self-disgust, cognition and emotion regulation in healthy adults. Specifically, in Study 1 we tested the hypothesis that emotion regulation strategies (avoidance, suppression, and cognitive reappraisal) mediate the relationship between inhibition ability and state and trait levels of self-disgust. In Study 2, we followed a more comprehensive approach to test the hypothesis that frontal lobe-related cognitive processes (updating, Theory of Mind-ToM-, and self-attention) are closely related to the experience of self-disgust in healthy adults. Overall, across these studies, we found evidence to support the idea that inhibition ability and ToM may play a role in the experience of state and trait self-disgust, respectively. However, we did not find consistent evidence across the two studies to support the notion held in the literature that the experience of self- conscious emotions, in this case self-disgust, is heavily dependent on frontal lobe-related cognition.
自我厌恶是一种负面的自我意识情绪，在心理病理学和幸福感中起着重要作用。然而，自我厌恶在情感文献中很少受到关注，因此我们对自我厌恶体验背后的过程的理解相对较少，尽管神经心理学和神经影像学研究支持这样一种观点，即这种情绪可能严重依赖于额叶相关的认知。为了检验这一假设，我们在两项研究中调查了健康成年人的状态和特质自我厌恶、认知和情绪调节之间的关系。具体来说，在研究 1 中，我们检验了这样一种假设，即情绪调节策略（回避、抑制和认知重评）在抑制能力与状态和特质自我厌恶之间的关系中起中介作用。在研究 2 中，我们采用了一种更全面的方法来检验这样一种假设，即额叶相关的认知过程（更新、心理理论-ToM-和自我注意）与健康成年人自我厌恶的体验密切相关。总的来说，在这些研究中，我们有证据支持这样一种观点，即抑制能力和心理理论可能分别在状态和特质自我厌恶的体验中发挥作用。然而，我们在两项研究中都没有找到一致的证据来支持文献中的观点，即自我意识情绪的体验，在这种情况下是自我厌恶，严重依赖于额叶相关的认知。
