Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis.
National Center for PTSD, Veteran Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System.
Emotion. 2024 Oct;24(7):1771-1775. doi: 10.1037/emo0001384. Epub 2024 Jun 6.
Affect-as-information theory posits that understanding of one's emotions (i.e., emotional clarity) can be leveraged to make decisions and attain goals. Furthermore, recent work has emphasized the dynamic nature of emotional clarity and its fluctuations in daily life. Therefore, we sought to test how momentary emotional clarity, experienced in everyday life, would be associated with levels of indecisiveness and goal pursuit. Following affect-as-information, we hypothesized that emotional clarity would be associated with lower indecisiveness but greater goal pursuit. We also hypothesized that indecisiveness would be associated with less goal pursuit with momentary emotional clarity being a potential moderator of this association. Adults ( = 215, = 44.3) experiencing a range of depression, a disorder characterized by indecisiveness, completed a self-report measure of indecisiveness and 2 weeks of experience sampling assessing momentary emotional clarity, goal pursuit, and negative affect. Momentary emotional clarity showed robust links to lower indecisiveness and greater goal pursuit that were not accounted for by negative affect. We did not observe a link between indecisiveness and goal pursuit. Emotional clarity appears to play a role in motivational and cognitive processes that unfold in daily life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
情感信息理论认为，对自身情绪的理解（即情绪清晰度）可以被用来做出决策和实现目标。此外，最近的研究强调了情绪清晰度的动态性质及其在日常生活中的波动。因此，我们试图测试日常生活中瞬间的情绪清晰度如何与犹豫不决和目标追求的水平相关。根据情感信息理论，我们假设情绪清晰度与较低的犹豫不决有关，但与更高的目标追求有关。我们还假设犹豫不决与较少的目标追求有关，而瞬间的情绪清晰度可能是这种关系的一个潜在调节因素。经历了各种抑郁程度的成年人（n=215，M=44.3），这种障碍以犹豫不决为特征，完成了一份关于犹豫不决的自我报告测量和两周的经验采样，评估瞬间的情绪清晰度、目标追求和消极情绪。瞬间的情绪清晰度与较低的犹豫不决和更高的目标追求有很强的联系，而不受消极情绪的影响。我们没有观察到犹豫不决和目标追求之间的联系。情绪清晰度似乎在日常生活中展开的动机和认知过程中发挥作用。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2024 APA，保留所有权利）。
