Fluency generating emotion words correlates with verbal measures but not emotion regulation, alexithymia, or depressive symptoms.

Hegefeld, Haley M; Satpute, Ajay B.; Ochsner, Kevin N.; Davidow, Juliet Y; Nook, Erik C.

doi:10.1037/emo0001229

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“…The present usage measure was based on selfreport, and so it may diverge from active emotion vocabularies assessed in natural language. Consistent with this idea, when emotion word uency was measured in a decontextualized manner (i.e., adapting a classic semantic uency paradigm), individual differences did not predict emotion regulation or depressive symptoms (Hegefeld et al, 2023). Together, these ndings suggest that usage measures likely have complex and contextually bounded relationships with outcomes in the emotion regulation and perhaps other mental health domains.…”

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Links between emotion word usage, accuracy, and emotional dysregulation: An integrative analysis

Fugate,

Gendron,

Hoemann

2024

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People vary in the precision with which they report on their emotions, known as emotional granularity, and this precision predicts their ability to regulate their emotions. It is not yet known, however, whether links between emotion regulation and emotional granularity are due to variation knowledge of emotion words -- specifically, individuals’ reported usage, understanding, and ability to accurately define emotion words. In the present report, we combined data from six studies to address this gap in the literature using an integrative data analysis. Participants across the studies reported on their usage and understanding of a list of highly-granular emotion words, and were tested for their accuracy of definition. They also completed questionnaire measures of emotional granularity and emotion dysregulation. Emotion word accuracy and understanding were highly correlated, so individual models tested each separately to predict emotion regulation difficulty. In the model including usage and understanding, we observed a main effect of understanding, such that participants with greater self-assessed understanding of emotion words reported less difficulty regulating their emotions. Similar effects were found for the model including usage and accuracy, such that individuals with higher emotion word accuracy had less difficulty regulating their emotions. Critically, these findings held when accounting for self-reported granularity, suggesting the value of emotion word knowledge measures for predicting dysregulated emotions. Future work should examine how individuals’ emotion word knowledge is also linked to mental health outcomes.

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Links between emotion word usage, accuracy, and emotional dysregulation: An integrative analysis

Fugate,

Gendron,

Hoemann

2024

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“…These discrepancies suggest that the relationship between emotion word repertoires and pertinent outcomes varies based on task or context of language use. Indeed, recent work has shown that measures of emotional functioning and well-being are unrelated to fluency for emotion words, when this is assessed in a task (Hegefeld et al, 2023). Future work is necessary to probe how and when using (more) words for emotion is beneficial, and how and when it is not.…”

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Using freely generated labels instead of rating scales to assess emotion in everyday life

Hoemann,

Warfel,

Mills

et al. 2024

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To measure emotion in daily life, studies often prompt participants to repeatedly rate their feelings on a set of pre-specified terms. This approach has yielded key findings in the psychological literature yet may not represent how people typically describe their experiences. We used an alternative approach, in which participants labeled their current emotion with at least one word of their choosing. In an initial study, estimates of label positivity recapitulated momentary valence ratings and were associated with self-reported mental health. The number of unique emotion words used over time was related to the balance and spread of emotions endorsed in an end-of-day rating task, but not to other measures of emotional functioning. A second study tested and replicated a subset of these findings. Considering the variety and richness of participant responses, a free-label approach appears to be a viable as well as compelling means of studying emotion in everyday life.

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“…We assessed emotional verbal fluency using a previously validated task 89 where children were asked to list all the emotions/feelings words they knew in a 30 s period during online Zoom visits (“Can you tell me all the emotion or feeling words you know? So different words for how you are feeling in your heart?…”

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Childhood conduct problems and parent–child talk during social and nonsocial play contexts: a naturalistic home-based experiment

Sun,

Plate,

Jones

et al. 2024

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Parent–child interactions are a critical pathway to emotion socialization, with disruption to these processes associated with risk for childhood behavior problems. Using computational linguistics methods, we tested whether (1) play context influenced parent–child socioemotional language, and (2) child conduct problems or callous-unemotional traits were associated with patterns of socioemotional or nonsocial language across contexts. Seventy-nine parent–child dyads (children, 5–6 years old) played a socioemotional skills (“social context”) or math (“nonsocial context”) game at home. We transcribed and analyzed game play, which had been audio recorded by participants. The social context elicited more socioemotional and cognitive words, while the nonsocial context elicited more mathematical words. The use of socioemotional language by parents and children was more strongly correlated in the social context, but context did not moderate the degree of correlation in cognitive or mathematical word use between parents and children. Children with more conduct problems used fewer socioemotional words in the social context, while children with higher callous-unemotional traits used fewer cognitive words in both contexts. We highlight the role of context in supporting socioemotionally rich parent–child language interactions and provide preliminary evidence for the existence of linguistic markers of child behavior problems. Our results also inform naturalistic assessments of parent–child interactions and home-based interventions for parents and children facing socioemotional or behavioral challenges.

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Fluency generating emotion words correlates with verbal measures but not emotion regulation, alexithymia, or depressive symptoms.

Cited by 5 publications

References 103 publications

Links between emotion word usage, accuracy, and emotional dysregulation: An integrative analysis

Links between emotion word usage, accuracy, and emotional dysregulation: An integrative analysis

Using freely generated labels instead of rating scales to assess emotion in everyday life

Childhood conduct problems and parent–child talk during social and nonsocial play contexts: a naturalistic home-based experiment

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