Sources of variation in emotional awareness: Age, gender, and socioeconomic status

Mankus, Annette M.; Boden, Matthew Tyler; Thompson, Renee J.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.09.043

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“…Female PSP may be exposed to more sexualization, disrespect, sexually charged threats, and violence than their male counterparts (Pogrebin and Poole, 1997;Batton and Wright, 2019). Females are also more likely to be aware of their emotional states and more able to report on their symptoms on a self-report questionnaire (Mankus et al, 2016); therefore, having increased mental health knowledge may increase the likelihood that a person can and will report difficulties. Pressures may also exist at work for female PSP to act stoically on the job, which may compromise their coping or their overall resilience (Morash et al, 2006;Batton and Wright, 2019).…”

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Examining Mental Health Knowledge, Stigma, and Service Use Intentions Among Public Safety Personnel

2020

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experience an elevated risk for mental disorders due to inherent work-related stress. Several programs have been designed to increase mental health knowledge, intending to reduce stigma, and increase mental health service helpseeking (e.g., resilience training); however, extant programs have not demonstrated sustained improvements for PSP mental health. The current study assessed levels of mental health knowledge, stigma, and service use intentions in a sample of Canadian PSP and compared trends to published estimates of mental health symptoms across PSP categories to inform future programming. Methods: PSP completed questionnaires assessing mental health knowledge, stigma against coworkers with mental illness, and professional service use intentions. Correlations among variables and one-way analyses of variance were conducted to assess differences among categories. PSP were categorized into six categories for comparison: communication officials, correctional workers, firefighters, municipal/provincial police, paramedics, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Results: There were significant differences between categories for each variable. Correctional workers reported the most mental health knowledge, least stigma, and highest intentions to use mental health services, and the highest positive screens for mental disorders. Conversely, firefighters reported the lowest mental health knowledge, highest stigma, and lowest willingness to seek professional help, and the lowest prevalence of positive screens for mental disorders. Discussion: The results contrast previously hypothesized associations among mental health variables where education, stigma reduction, and help-seeking have been expected to improve mental health. The discrepant results offer potentially critical information for organizational policies to better support PSP. Individuals reporting mental health symptoms may be a more appropriate target audience for intervention strategies, given the possible, crucial role personal experience plays in increasing mental health knowledge, and ultimately, encouraging help-seeking.

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“…During the identification stage, people first assess their current emotion state (P). People who believe emotions can be controlled (Ford & Gross, ) or are more aware of their emotions (Mankus, Boden, & Thompson, ) are especially likely to assess their current emotion state. Next, people evaluate (V) how their current emotion state differs from their desired emotion state.…”

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Emotion regulation goals: An individual difference perspective

Eldesouky

Gross

2019

Social & Personality Psych

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Goals are widely understood to be central to the initiation, maintenance, and cessation of emotion regulation (ER). Recent studies have shown that there are profound individual differences in the types of ER goals people pursue and the extent to which they pursue them. Here, we highlight the importance of taking an individual difference approach to studying ER goals. First, we use the extended process model of ER to provide conceptual clarity on what ER goals are and describe the crucial role of goals in each stage of ER. We then identify five promising directions for future research using an individual difference approach to ER goals.

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“…Second, levels of psychological distress are also higher in this cohort of young people, likely a result of their significant comorbidity and psychological complexity. Third, emotional clarity is theorised to increase with age and therefore, it can be inferred that young people are likely to have developmentally appropriate deficits in emotional clarity (Cartensen, Pasupathi, Mayr, & Nesselroade, 2000;Mankus, Boden, & Thompson, 2016). Finally, emotional clarity is a construct that has recently been implicated as a potential transdiagnostic treatment target-that is, a construct which is amenable to change during treatment and related to positive treatment outcomes, across a wide range of mental health disorders (Sloan et al, 2017).…”

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Distress, emotional clarity, and disordered eating in young people with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties

Sloan

O’Donnell

Bianchi

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Clinical Psychologist

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Background Disordered eating frequently co‐occurs in young people seeking treatment for mental health and substance use difficulties. High levels of psychological distress and a lack of emotional clarity (LEC) are two constructs that have received recent attention as important constructs underlying this harmful behaviour; however how they interact to precipitate and maintain disordered eating still remains unclear. This study sought to address this gap by examining whether psychological distress moderates the relationship between LEC and disordered eating in a sample of young people with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties. Methods Participants were young people (N = 306, M = 20.8 years) accessing youth specific alcohol and other drugs and/or primary mental health services in Australia who completed an online questionnaire which examined their level of emotional clarity, degree of distress, and engagement in disordered eating behaviours. Results Moderation analysis was employed to examine if psychological distress (i.e., anxiety and depression) significantly moderates the relationship between LEC and disordered eating. A small, significant interactive effect of high levels of depressive symptoms on the relationship between LEC and disordered eating was found. Whereas, anxious affect did not significantly interact with LEC to predict disordered eating. Conclusions Young people who struggle to identify and articulate their emotions are more likely to engage in disordered eating in the presence of high distress relating to depressive symptomatology. Addressing LEC through increasing emotional literacy, while treating depressive symptomatology, are key intervention strategies that may assist young people with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties manage disordered eating.

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Sources of variation in emotional awareness: Age, gender, and socioeconomic status

Cited by 66 publications

References 56 publications

Examining Mental Health Knowledge, Stigma, and Service Use Intentions Among Public Safety Personnel

Examining Mental Health Knowledge, Stigma, and Service Use Intentions Among Public Safety Personnel

Emotion regulation goals: An individual difference perspective

Distress, emotional clarity, and disordered eating in young people with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties

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