Emotional clarity in daily life is associated with reduced indecisiveness and greater goal pursuit.

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Emotion Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-06 DOI:10.1037/emo0001384

Nathaniel S Eckland, Rebecca L Feldman, Haijing Wu Hallenbeck, Renee J Thompson

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Abstract

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 (N = 215, M_age = 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).

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日常生活中的情绪清晰度与优柔寡断的减少和对目标的更大追求有关。

情感即信息理论认为，了解一个人的情感（即情感清晰度）可以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，我们试图测试在日常生活中体验到的瞬间情绪清晰度与优柔寡断和目标追求水平之间的关系。根据 "情感即信息 "的理论，我们假设情感清晰度会与较低的优柔寡断程度和较高的目标追求程度相关。我们还假设，优柔寡断与较少的目标追求有关，而瞬间的情绪清晰度则是这种关联的潜在调节因素。患有一系列以优柔寡断为特征的抑郁症的成年人（人数 = 215，年龄 = 44.3）完成了一项关于优柔寡断的自我报告测量，并对瞬间情绪清晰度、目标追求和负面情绪进行了为期两周的经验取样评估。瞬时情绪清晰度与较低的优柔寡断程度和较高的目标追求之间存在密切联系，而负面情绪则无法解释这种联系。我们没有观察到优柔寡断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了作用。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有）。

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Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

8.40

自引率

7.10%

发文量

325

审稿时长

8 weeks

期刊介绍： Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes.