Muir, K, Madill, A and Brown, C orcid.org/0000-0001-9697-4878 (2017) Individual differences in emotional processing and autobiographical memory: Interoceptive awareness and alexithymia in the fading affect bias. Cognition and Emotion, 31 (7). pp. 1392-1404. ISSN 0269-9931
Abstract
The capacity to perceive internal bodily states is linked to emotional awareness and effective emotional regulation. We explore individual differences in emotional awareness in relation to the fading affect bias (FAB), which refers to the greater dwindling of unpleasant compared to pleasant emotions in autobiographical memory. We consider interoceptive awareness and alexithymia in relation to the FAB, and private event rehearsal as a mediating process. With increasing interoceptive awareness, there was an enhanced FAB, but with increasing alexithymia, there was a decreased FAB. Further, the effects of interoceptive awareness were partially mediated by private rehearsal of pleasant events. We provide novel evidence that capacity for emotional awareness and thus effective processing is an important factor predictive of the FAB. Moreover, our results imply an important role for maintaining positive affect in the FAB. Our findings offer new insights into the effects of interoception and alexithymia on autobiographical memory, and support concepts of the FAB emerging as a result of adaptive emotional regulation processes.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cognition and Emotion on 24 Aug 2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1225005. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Fading Affect Bias, autobiographical memory, emotion, alexithymia, interoceptive awareness |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2016 09:39 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 14:56 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02699931.2016.1225005 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103750 |