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Karimpour A, Mahmoodalilou M, Davatgari P, Aslanabadi S, Asadi faezi S, Kamali H, et al . The Role of Emotional Granularity in Vulnerability to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PCP 2025; 13 (1)
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Alireza Karimpour * 
1, Majid Mahmoodalilou2 , Paria Davatgari2 , Saba Aslanabadi2 , Sanam Asadi faezi3 , Hossein Kamali4 , Bahar Dehghanpour Hanzaei5 , Fatemeh Sadat Raeisian6
1, Majid Mahmoodalilou2 , Paria Davatgari2 , Saba Aslanabadi2 , Sanam Asadi faezi3 , Hossein Kamali4 , Bahar Dehghanpour Hanzaei5 , Fatemeh Sadat Raeisian6
1- Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. , alireza.kpsy92@gmail.com
2- Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
3- Department of Family and Sexual Health, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.
4- Department of gerontology, Graduate school of health sciences, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
5- Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
6- School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
3- Department of Family and Sexual Health, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.
4- Department of gerontology, Graduate school of health sciences, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
5- Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
6- School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Background: The term of emotional granularity describes to the ability to recognize and distinguish between different emotional states, allowing individuals to respond appropriately to situations and manage their emotions more effectively. One of the main problems in PTSD is the lack of clarity and emotional awareness, which causes vulnerability to PTSD and the persistence of its symptoms. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of emotional granularity in vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Methods: The present study employs a descriptive and correlational research design. The statistical population of the current study was PTSD patients who had referred to Roozbeh Hospital. The sample size of the research was 205 people. To collect data, the Mississippi scale for post-traumatic stress disorder, positive and Positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, and Semantic similarities test. Also, for data analysis, multiple regression was used using SPSS version 26 software.
Results: The components of emotional granularity explain 32.7 percent of PTSD variance. Among the components of emotional granularity, the components of positive affect (β=-0.312), semantic similarities (β=-0.379) had significant and inverse effect (P<0.01) on PTSD. Also, components of negative emotion (β=0.304), lack of emotional clarity (β=0.382) and lack of emotional awareness (β=0.362) had a significant and directly effect (P<0.01) on PTSD.
Conclusion: emotional granularity is one of the basic factors in predicting vulnerability to PTSD. Because high emotional granularity is associated with greater clarity, awareness and emotional differentiation. While low emotional granularity is associated with lack of differentiation and emotional clarity and as a result expressing emotions in the form of general vocabulary.
Methods: The present study employs a descriptive and correlational research design. The statistical population of the current study was PTSD patients who had referred to Roozbeh Hospital. The sample size of the research was 205 people. To collect data, the Mississippi scale for post-traumatic stress disorder, positive and Positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, and Semantic similarities test. Also, for data analysis, multiple regression was used using SPSS version 26 software.
Results: The components of emotional granularity explain 32.7 percent of PTSD variance. Among the components of emotional granularity, the components of positive affect (β=-0.312), semantic similarities (β=-0.379) had significant and inverse effect (P<0.01) on PTSD. Also, components of negative emotion (β=0.304), lack of emotional clarity (β=0.382) and lack of emotional awareness (β=0.362) had a significant and directly effect (P<0.01) on PTSD.
Conclusion: emotional granularity is one of the basic factors in predicting vulnerability to PTSD. Because high emotional granularity is associated with greater clarity, awareness and emotional differentiation. While low emotional granularity is associated with lack of differentiation and emotional clarity and as a result expressing emotions in the form of general vocabulary.
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Approach to biological neural
Received: 2024/10/24 | Accepted: 2024/11/19 | Published: 2025/01/15
Received: 2024/10/24 | Accepted: 2024/11/19 | Published: 2025/01/15
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