Braet Jolien, Giletta Matteo, Desmedt Olivier, Wante Laura, Rapp Lorenz, Pollatos Olga, Braet Caroline
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Psychol Rep. 2024 Sep 20:332941241286435. doi: 10.1177/00332941241286435.
The aim of the current study was to replicate findings from prior work among adults showing that individuals with better interoceptive skills have more emotional awareness, and show better emotion regulation abilities, in a sample of adolescents and by relying on instructions that reduce the contamination of known confound variables. A total of 102 Belgian adolescents ( = 14.10 years, = .63; 50 males) completed self-report questionnaires of emotional processes (FEEL-KJ and DERS) and the modified heartbeat counting task. From this task, interoceptive accuracy, interoceptive sensibility (confidence ratings), and interoceptive awareness scores (within-person correlations) were derived per participant. Results revealed no associations between the three dimensions of interoception and adolescents' levels of emotional awareness, adaptive, and maladaptive emotion regulation. The lack of associations which contrast some prior work with adults may be due to developmental differences. However, these might also support the low validity of the heartbeat counting task, or could be attributed to the measurement of the emotion measures (i.e., self-report). Future studies should, nevertheless, also test whether these non-significant results can be explained by the developmental differences in adolescents. Longitudinal research is needed to capture interoceptive changes during adolescence, as well as to replicate the current findings using rigorous multimethod approaches that increase the validity of interoception measurement.
本研究的目的是在青少年样本中重现先前针对成年人的研究结果，即具有更好内感受技能的个体具有更强的情绪意识，并表现出更好的情绪调节能力，同时依靠减少已知混杂变量干扰的指导语。共有102名比利时青少年（平均年龄=14.10岁，标准差=.63；50名男性）完成了情绪过程的自我报告问卷（FEEL-KJ和DERS）以及改良的心跳计数任务。从该任务中，得出了每位参与者的内感受准确性、内感受敏感性（信心评分）和内感受意识得分（个体内相关性）。结果显示，内感受的三个维度与青少年的情绪意识水平、适应性和适应不良情绪调节之间没有关联。这些缺乏关联的结果与先前针对成年人的一些研究形成对比，可能是由于发育差异。然而，这些结果也可能支持心跳计数任务的低效度，或者可归因于情绪测量方法（即自我报告）。不过，未来的研究也应该测试这些不显著的结果是否可以用青少年的发育差异来解释。需要进行纵向研究来捕捉青少年时期内感受的变化，以及使用严格的多方法途径来重现当前的研究结果，从而提高内感受测量的效度。
