Effect of Cognitive Reappraisal on Interoceptive Awareness and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression
Sorcher, Danielle H.
2016
- The emotion regulation strategy of cognitive reappraisal (CR) has been shown to facilitate greater well-being; specifically, cognitive reappraisal has been shown to lessen depression and anxiety. Interoceptive awareness (IA) is defined as consciously perceiving internal bodily signals that relate to emotions, such as heart beat. Because emotion regulation processes such as cognitive reappraisal ... read moreare linked to attention to and awareness of the state of the body, it is possible that there is a link between use of cognitive reappraisal and interoceptive awareness. Interoceptive awareness has also been linked to depression and anxiety, representing another avenue by which cognitive reappraisal and interoceptive awareness might be related. The present study aimed to gather more research that would elucidate the link between cognitive reappraisal and interoceptive awareness, depression, and anxiety. In order to further examine the relationship between these variables, the researchers manipulated the presence of CR instructions in a writing paradigm. The expressive writing group (EW) and the cognitive reappraisal writing (CRW) groups participated in daily writing exercises about stressful events, and the CRW group was instructed to use cognitive reappraisal in their writing. The control group did not participate in any writing exercises. The researchers assessed depressive and anxious symptoms at the beginning and the end of the study, and evaluated interoceptive awareness on the last day of the study, for participants in all groups. The results of the present study showed no significant effect of cognitive reappraisal writing on interoceptive awareness, nor on changes in anxious and depressive symptoms.Keywords: cognitive reappraisal, interoceptive awareness, anxiety, depressionread less
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