苦恼
干预(咨询)
心理学
临床心理学
发展心理学
精神科
作者
Lindsey M. Matt,T. H. Stanley Seah,Karin G. Coifman
出处
期刊:PLOS ONE
[Public Library of Science]
日期:2024-02-28
卷期号:19 (2): e0299540-e0299540
标识
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0299540
摘要
Background Disruptions in emotion processing are common across psychological disorders. Research suggests that emotion differentiation (ED; specificity in language used to characterize one’s emotional experience) and emotional self-efficacy (ESE; perceived ability to understand and manage one’s emotions) are important transdiagnostic factors associated with various psychological benefits. Whether ED and ESE can be improved in adults remains largely unclear. Methods Using a longitudinal prospective design, we tested a brief online training targeting emotion word knowledge (vs. a control condition) to see if it improved negative ED (NED) and ESE in a college sample. Moreover, we tested if changes in NED or ESE mediated the effects of the training on levels of psychological distress one week and two-months post-intervention. Results Findings provided partial support for our hypotheses. Individuals whose ESE increased post-intervention reported lower levels of distress two months later. Moreover, exploratory analyses revealed those who demonstrated greater training engagement experienced increases in NED that in turn predicted lower distress one-week post-intervention. However, there were no direct effects of intervention group on NED or ESE and distress. Conclusions These findings highlight the potential of a remotely-administered emotion-language intervention to influence key dimensions of emotion processing and suggest avenues for further refinement. Both NED and ESE may be malleable for some, and that enhancements in ESE may produce long-term psychological benefits.
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