Impaired Emotional Clarity and Psychopathology: A Transdiagnostic Deficit with Symptom-Specific Pathways through Emotion Regulation

Vine, Vera; Aldao, Amelia

doi:10.1521/jscp.2014.33.4.319

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“…One speculation for future research is that this effect represents a more global, valence-general construct of following feelings in affective forecasting (e.g., a general tendency to rely on emotion leading to overprediction of all future affect). Another is that using emotion as information depends on other meta-emotional abilities as inputs for cognitive processing, abilities that are also implicated in psychopathology (e.g., emotional clarity; Vine & Aldao, 2014). The tendency among dysphorics to follow negative feelings may thus capture broader misuse of affective states when forecasting affect (see Hoerger, Chapman, Epstein, & Duberstein, 2012).…”

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Event Prediction and Affective Forecasting in Depressive Cognition: Using Emotion as Information About the Future

Marroquín¹,

Nolen–Hoeksema²

2015

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

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Depression is characterized by a bleak view of the future, but the mechanisms through which depressed mood is integrated into basic processes of future-oriented cognition are unclear. We hypothesized that dysphoric individuals’ predictions of what will happen in the future (likelihood estimation) and how the future will feel (affective forecasting) are attributable to individual differences in incorporating present emotion as judgment-relevant information. Dysphoric individuals (n = 77) made pessimistic likelihood estimates and blunted positive affective forecasts relative to controls (n = 84). These differences were mediated by dysphoric individuals’ tendencies to rely on negative emotion as information more than controls—and on positive emotion less—independent of anhedonia. These findings suggest that (1) blunted positive affective forecasting is a distinctive component of depressive future-oriented cognition, and (2) future-oriented cognitive processes are linked not just to current emotional state, but also to individual variation in using that emotion as information. This role of individual differences elucidates basic mechanisms in future-oriented cognition, and suggests routes for intervention on interrelated cognitive and affective processes in depression.

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Event Prediction and Affective Forecasting in Depressive Cognition: Using Emotion as Information About the Future

Marroquín¹,

Nolen–Hoeksema²

2015

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

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“…For this purpose, we synthesized and expanded upon previous theories [e.g., 16,17,18,19] and proposed a skill-based model of emotion regulation. According to the Adaptive Coping with Emotions (ACE) Model [20] (Figure 1), effective emotion regulation can be conceptualized as the situation-adapted interplay of the abilities to (a) be aware of emotions [e.g., 21,22], (b) identify and label emotions [e.g., [23,24], (c) correctly interpret emotion-related body sensations [e.g., [25,26], (d) understand the prompts of emotions [e.g., [27], (e) actively modify negative emotions [e.g., [28,29], (f) accept negative emotions when necessary [e.g., 2,19,30,31], (g) tolerate negative emotions when they cannot be changed [e.g., [32,33], (h) confront (vs. avoid) distressing situations in order to attain important goals [e.g., [34,35], and (i) compassionately support (encourage, self-soothe, guide) oneself…”

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The Affect Regulation Training (ART): a transdiagnostic approach to the prevention and treatment of mental disorders

Berking

Lukas

2015

Current Opinion in Psychology

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“…The resulting developmentally normative mismatch between increased emotional volatility combined with an underdeveloped regulation system means that for youths particularly at risk (e.g., children of substance-dependent parents [46], those with environmental or genetic risk [29••], or psychosocial stress [38]), difficulty with emotion regulation is an identifiable, transdiagnostic, early embedded risk for psychopathology in adolescence—including disorders of addiction, as well as internalizing and externalizing problems [3••, 11••, 15, 17, 19, 47–49, 50•, 51••, 52, 53••, 54–56]. …”

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Adolescent Substance Use and Comorbid Psychopathology: Emotion Regulation Deficits as a Transdiagnostic Risk Factor

Shadur

Lejuez

2015

Curr Addict Rep

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Rates of substance use and comorbid psychopathology peak during adolescence, highlighting the need to identify transdiagnostic risk processes that cut across conditions and elucidate early embedded risk factors for comorbidity across development. The current review highlights emotion regulation deficits as a core transdiagnostic risk factor underlying the development of substance use, addiction, and comorbid psychopathology in adolescence. We present the dual systems model of neurological development to highlight adolescence as a critical period of increased risk for emotion regulation difficulties, corresponding risk behaviors, and psychopathology. We describe malfunction in the neurobiological regulation system underlying the relationship between emotion regulation and risk for addiction and comorbidity. We pull from two established developmental theories including both the externalizing pathway and the internalizing pathway to substance use disorders, which together highlight how early embedded risk in the form of emotion regulation deficits can explain mechanisms underlying the development of addiction and comorbid psychiatric disorders.

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Impaired Emotional Clarity and Psychopathology: A Transdiagnostic Deficit with Symptom-Specific Pathways through Emotion Regulation

Cited by 135 publications

References 43 publications

Event Prediction and Affective Forecasting in Depressive Cognition: Using Emotion as Information About the Future

Event Prediction and Affective Forecasting in Depressive Cognition: Using Emotion as Information About the Future

The Affect Regulation Training (ART): a transdiagnostic approach to the prevention and treatment of mental disorders

Adolescent Substance Use and Comorbid Psychopathology: Emotion Regulation Deficits as a Transdiagnostic Risk Factor

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