Emotional Awareness and Peculiar Beliefs

The relations between emotional awareness and peculiar beliefs were examined in two studies with college student participants. Emotional awareness includes facets representing the extent to which emotions are attended to, and to which their source and their type (i.e., anger vs. fear) are understood. In a cross-sectional study (N = 208) using questionnaire data, it was found that the facets of emotional awareness were additively associated with suspiciousness and interactively associated with dysmorphic body beliefs. These relations varied by sex, and were not artifacts of shared variance with other correlates of peculiar beliefs, such as neuroticism and self-esteem. In contrast to previous research, an analog experiment ( N = 229) provided very little evidence for a causal relation between the facets of emotional awareness and either suspiciousness or dysmorphic body beliefs, although this may be attributable to methodological limitations.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Boden, Matthew T.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Berenbaum, Howard

• Psychology, Experimental

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3314733

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82152