TY - JOUR
T1 - Facets of emotional clarity and suspiciousness
AU - Boden, Matthew Tyler
AU - Berenbaum, Howard
N1 - Funding Information:
Preparation of this paper was supported by a Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health ( MH071969 ). This manuscript was based on Matthew Tyler Boden’s dissertation submitted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We would like to thank the following assistants who helped conduct this research: Marian Wiley-Moore, Jessica Barkwill, Sandra Domico, Jennifer Ernst, Julie Feldman, Amanda Hester, Emily Kostner, Sandra Perez, Trang Pham, Steffen Olsen, Marius Zyman, Nicole Heller, Katie Johnson, Britt Anderson, and David Tang.
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Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - In a college student sample, we explored the relations between individual differences in facets of emotional clarity and suspiciousness. Previous theory and research has treated emotional clarity as a one-dimensional construct. Boden and Berenbaum (2011) proposed that a second facet of emotional clarity, source awareness (a general understanding of the cause of their emotions), could be distinguished from type awareness (a general understanding of the type of emotions [anger, fear] experienced). We found that source and type awareness were incrementally, inversely associated with suspiciousness when statistically accounting for the extent to which emotions are attended to, and gender. Additionally, source awareness significantly predicted suspiciousness after accounting for anger, anxious arousal, and social anxiety, whereas type awareness did not. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that, among individuals with low source and type awareness, suspicious beliefs are formed to make sense of and explain emotional arousal.
AB - In a college student sample, we explored the relations between individual differences in facets of emotional clarity and suspiciousness. Previous theory and research has treated emotional clarity as a one-dimensional construct. Boden and Berenbaum (2011) proposed that a second facet of emotional clarity, source awareness (a general understanding of the cause of their emotions), could be distinguished from type awareness (a general understanding of the type of emotions [anger, fear] experienced). We found that source and type awareness were incrementally, inversely associated with suspiciousness when statistically accounting for the extent to which emotions are attended to, and gender. Additionally, source awareness significantly predicted suspiciousness after accounting for anger, anxious arousal, and social anxiety, whereas type awareness did not. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that, among individuals with low source and type awareness, suspicious beliefs are formed to make sense of and explain emotional arousal.
KW - Emotional awareness
KW - Odd/peculiar beliefs
KW - Source awareness
KW - Suspiciousness
KW - Type awareness emotional clarity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.010
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84862313175
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 53
SP - 426
EP - 430
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 4
ER -