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People vary greatly in the way they experience and manage their emotions. As a result, they tend to develop different and distinct relationships with their own emotions throughout their lives, something the current proposal refers to as meta-emotional processes. Several of these processes are known to influence emotional functioning. For instance, emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and the beliefs people hold about emotions are all known to influence levels of affective distress. However, each of these constructs have been studied in relative isolation, despite the intuitive connection they all have with each other. Guided by the theory of constructed emotion (Barrett, 2017), the current study will use structural equation modeling to investigate how emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and emotion beliefs all influence affective distress in two models. Specifically, in one model, sequential mediation analyses are proposed where the association between emotional awareness and affective distress is mediated by emotion beliefs and emotion regulation in one model. In the second model, emotion regulation is expected to mediate the link between emotional awareness and affective distress, and then the link between emotion regulation and emotion beliefs are expected to be mediated by affective distress. |
