Ikeda Shinnosuke
College of Education, Tamagawa University, 6-1-1 Tamagawagakuen, Machida, Tokyo, 194-8610, Japan.
Discov Ment Health. 2025 Jul 15;5(1):105. doi: 10.1007/s44192-025-00250-1.
Emotions consist of bodily sensations and emotional concepts. This study examined how sensitivity to bodily sensations and emotional vocabulary size, which encompasses knowledge of emotional concepts, independently impact depression, and whether mindfulness can modulate these effects. A cross-sectional online survey involving 470 participants assessed the influence of somatosensory sensitivity and emotional vocabulary on depression, and the potential moderating role of mindfulness. Results indicated that both bodily sensory sensitivity and emotional vocabulary size independently affected depression. However, mindfulness was found to moderate the impact of bodily sensory sensitivity on depression, but not the effect of emotional vocabulary size. These findings underscore the significance of both bodily sensations and emotional concepts in the etiology of depression and suggest mindfulness practices as a beneficial intervention for those with high bodily sensitivity.
情绪由身体感觉和情感概念组成。本研究考察了对身体感觉的敏感度和情感词汇量（其中包括情感概念的知识）如何独立影响抑郁，以及正念是否能够调节这些影响。一项涉及470名参与者的横断面在线调查评估了体感敏感度和情感词汇对抑郁的影响，以及正念的潜在调节作用。结果表明，身体感觉敏感度和情感词汇量均独立影响抑郁。然而，研究发现正念可调节身体感觉敏感度对抑郁的影响，但对情感词汇量的影响没有调节作用。这些发现强调了身体感觉和情感概念在抑郁症病因学中的重要性，并表明正念练习对身体敏感度高的人是一种有益的干预措施。
