Affect Labeling Expressive Writing and Emotion Regulation

影响标签表达性写作和情绪调节

• 批准号: 7656817
• 负责人: MATTHEW Dylan LIEBERMAN
• 金额: $ 37.57万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-11 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7656817
• 关键词: Accounting; Acute; Affect; Amygdaloid structure; Anxiety; Behavioral; Brain; Brain region; Child Rearing; Chronic; Classification; Clinical; Cognitive; Disclosure; Disease; Distress; Effectiveness; Emotional; Emotions; Environment; Exercise; Feeling; Frequencies; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Future; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Polymorphism; Genetic Variation; Health Benefit; Individual; Individual Differences; Intention; Investigation; Journals; Label; Letters; Limbic System; Measures; Mental Health; Methaqualone; Motor; Neurocognitive; Neurotic Disorders; Outcome; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Performance; Personality; Physiological; Population; Prefrontal Cortex; Procedures; Process; Psyche structure; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Regulation; Research; Sample Size; Sampling; Scanning; Social support; Source; Targeted Research; Techniques; Therapeutic Intervention; Work; Writing; analog; base; clinically relevant; depression; emotion regulation; emotional stimulus; experience; expressive writing; follow-up; insight; physical conditioning; psychologic; relating to nervous system; response; social; trait

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The notion that putting feelings into words has mental and physical health benefits is hardly new. When individuals experience chronic or acute distress, the act of seeing a therapist, talking with supportive others, or writing in a journal can each have substantial psychological benefits. Two decades of social and clinical psychological research on expressive writing1,2 have empirically documented that a small number of brief expressive writing sessions, focused on the source of one's distress can produce demonstrable mental and physical health benefits over the course of several months. Although a number of mechanisms have been proposed over the years, none have garnered widespread support. The current proposal suggests that putting feelings into words ("affect labeling") is a form of unintentional emotion regulation that serves to diminish distress by dampening limbic responses and the physiological correlates that typically parallel limbic activity. Affect labeling is associated with increased activity in right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (RVLPFC), diminished amygdala activity, and diminished self-reported distress, similar to the pattern of effects observed during intentional emotion regulation. Additionally, it is proposed that intentional and unintentional emotion regulation both rely on a more general inhibitory control mechanism associated with RVLPFC. Thus, we will also examine whether common patterns of brain activation are associated with the performance of intentional and unintentional emotion regulation, as well as two other inhibitory control tasks from other domains (motor, social cognitive). Finally, neural responses on these tasks as well as results from an expressive writing procedure will be related to clinically-relevant individual difference variables (i.e., genes, personality, social history). All participants will participate in fMRI scans while performing the Affect Labeling & Emotion Regulation Task (ALERT), which assesses both intentional emotion regulation (using reappraisal) and unintentional emotion regulation (using affect labeling), as well as a motor inhibition task (i.e., go/no-go) and a social cognitive inhibition task (i.e., suppressing one's own perspective to appreciate another's differing perspective). Subsequently, participants will come in for four expressive writing sessions (or a control task in the control sample) and be assessed at 3 month follow-up for mental and physical health benefits. Putting feelings into words has demonstrated mental health benefits, yet the mechanism by which these benefits occur is poorly understood. The proposed research will be the first research to examine the neural bases of the benefits of expressive writing. This project will also examine whether inhibitory control in social, emotion, and motor domains rely on a common neurocognitive mechanism and whether individual differences in this mechanism relate to clinically-relevant variables (personality, social history, genes).

描述（由申请人提供）：将感情付诸文字对身心健康有益的概念并不新鲜。当一个人经历慢性或急性痛苦时，去看治疗师，与支持他的人交谈，或在日记中写作，每一个行为都可以带来实质性的心理益处。二十年的社会和临床心理学研究表达性写作1，2经验证明，少量的简短的表达性写作会议，集中在一个人的痛苦的来源可以产生明显的心理和身体健康的好处，在几个月的过程。虽然多年来提出了一些机制，但没有一个机制获得广泛支持。目前的建议表明，将感受用语言表达（“情感标签”）是一种无意的情绪调节形式，通过抑制边缘系统反应和通常与边缘系统活动平行的生理相关性来减少痛苦。情感标签与右腹外侧前额叶皮层（RVLPFC）活动增加、杏仁核活动减少和自我报告的痛苦减少有关，这与故意情绪调节期间观察到的效果模式相似。此外，有人提出，有意和无意的情绪调节都依赖于一个更一般的抑制控制机制与RVLPFC。因此，我们还将研究大脑激活的常见模式是否与有意和无意的情绪调节以及其他领域（运动，社会认知）的其他两个抑制控制任务的表现相关。最后，对这些任务的神经反应以及来自表达性书写过程的结果将与临床相关的个体差异变量（即，基因、人格、社会历史）。所有参与者将在执行情感标签和情绪调节任务（ALERT）的同时参与fMRI扫描，该任务评估有意情绪调节（使用重新评价）和无意情绪调节（使用情感标签），以及运动抑制任务（即，进行/不进行）和社会认知抑制任务（即，抑制自己的观点来欣赏另一个人的不同观点）。随后，参与者将参加四次表达性写作课程（或对照样本中的对照任务），并在3个月的随访中评估心理和身体健康益处。将感受转化为文字已经证明了心理健康的好处，但这些好处发生的机制却知之甚少。这项拟议中的研究将是第一个研究表达性写作益处的神经基础的研究。该项目还将研究社会，情感和运动领域的抑制控制是否依赖于共同的神经认知机制，以及这种机制中的个体差异是否与临床相关变量（个性，社会历史，基因）有关。