I can feel it in my bones: Experienced intensity of emotion predicts in-the-moment awareness of body sensations.

IF 3.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL Emotion Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-10 DOI:10.1037/emo0001502

Alexandra MacVittie, Kristen D Petagna, Jolie B Wormwood

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Many emotion theories suggest that sensations from the body are a critical piece of emotional experience. Here, we examine how subjective awareness of body sensations is associated with emotional experience throughout daily life using ecological momentary assessment (data collected in 2021). Participants (N = 161) completed a 7-day protocol where they rated the intensity with which they were currently experiencing 16 different emotions as well as overall awareness of their body sensations (_Nobs = 7,483). Experienced emotional intensity was positively associated with in-the-moment body awareness across 12 of 16 emotion terms. This association was present for both normatively positive and negative emotions, as well as for both normatively high and low arousal emotions. These findings extend prior theories on the role of body sensations in emotional experience and demonstrate that the association between conscious experiences of the body and emotion covaries in the moment within participants across different contexts in daily life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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我能从骨子里感觉到：经历过的情感强度预示着当下对身体感觉的意识。

许多情感理论认为，来自身体的感觉是情感体验的关键部分。在这里，我们使用生态瞬间评估（数据收集于2021年）来研究身体感觉的主观意识如何与日常生活中的情感体验相关联。参与者（N = 161）完成了一项为期7天的方案，在该方案中，他们对自己目前经历的16种不同情绪的强度以及对身体感觉的总体意识进行了评分（Nobs = 7,483）。经历过的情绪强度在16个情绪术语中的12个中与当下的身体意识呈正相关。这种关联存在于规范的积极情绪和消极情绪中，也存在于规范的高唤醒情绪和低唤醒情绪中。这些发现扩展了先前关于身体感觉在情绪体验中的作用的理论，并证明了在日常生活的不同背景下，参与者的身体意识体验和情绪之间的关联在当下是共同变化的。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 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.