A systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in the relationship between cardiac interoceptive accuracy and emotion

IF 7.9 1区医学 Q1 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106318

Sarina Afzali Shamsabad , Alexandra Edwards , Rebecca Brewer , Jennifer Murphy

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Abstract

Interoceptive accuracy, the ability to correctly perceive internal bodily signals, is considered integral to emotional experience. However, surprising evidence suggests that whilst females tend to have poorer interoceptive accuracy than males, they tend to have better emotion processing ability and rate their emotional competence higher. The current systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate sex differences in the relationship between cardiac interoceptive accuracy and emotion. A review of three databases (PsychInfo, Web of Science, PubMed) yielded 2707 abstracts, resulting in 94 eligible studies. Authors of eligible studies were contacted for sex disaggregated summary statistics. 33 and 30 studies were included in the qualitative and quantitative synthesis, respectively. Overall, we found little evidence of a relationship between cardiac interoceptive accuracy and measures of emotion when examining pooled groups and after sex disaggregation. These results question the proposal that cardiac interoceptive accuracy, as routinely measured, relates to emotion. The implications of these results are discussed considering limitations of our current measures of cardiac interoceptive accuracy and emotion.

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心脏内感受准确度与情绪关系性别差异的系统回顾与meta分析。

内感受的准确性，即正确感知身体内部信号的能力，被认为是情感体验不可或缺的一部分。然而，令人惊讶的证据表明，虽然女性的内感受准确性往往不如男性，但她们往往有更好的情绪处理能力，对自己的情绪能力的评价也更高。当前的系统回顾和荟萃分析旨在探讨心脏内感受准确性和情绪之间关系的性别差异。对三个数据库（PsychInfo, Web of Science, PubMed）的审查产生了2707篇摘要，其中94篇符合条件的研究。联系符合条件的研究的作者进行性别分类汇总统计。在定性和定量综合中分别包括33项和30项研究。总的来说，我们发现很少有证据表明，在检查合并组和性别分类后，心脏内感受准确性和情绪测量之间存在关系。这些结果质疑了常规测量的心脏内感受准确性与情绪有关的建议。考虑到我们目前测量心脏内感受准确性和情绪的局限性，我们讨论了这些结果的含义。

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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 医学-行为科学

CiteScore

14.20

自引率

3.70%

发文量

466

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： The official journal of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society publishes original and significant review articles that explore the intersection between neuroscience and the study of psychological processes and behavior. The journal also welcomes articles that primarily focus on psychological processes and behavior, as long as they have relevance to one or more areas of neuroscience.