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Real-Time and Retrospective Emotion Awareness With Cognitive Reappraisal Training
Sponsor: Asia University
Summary
This pilot randomized active-comparison study examined two formats of emotional awareness and cognitive reappraisal training for adults with co-occurring anxiety and depressive symptoms. Participants were assigned to either a real-time awareness group or a retrospective awareness group. The real-time awareness group used a smartwatch-based heart-rate prompting system to identify emotions in daily life and later complete cognitive reappraisal exercises. The retrospective awareness group completed daily evening reflection and cognitive reappraisal exercises based on emotional events from that day. The study lasted six weeks and included assessments at baseline, mid-intervention, and post-intervention. Outcomes included anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, emotional clarity, mood repair, cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, and psychological well-being. The purpose of the study was to examine preliminary patterns of change and compare how the two formats may support emotion regulation processes.
Official title: Real-Time and Retrospective Emotion Awareness With Cognitive Reappraisal: Effects on Anxious-Depressive Symptoms and Well-Being
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 45 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
42
Start Date
2024-01-25
Completion Date
2024-06-20
Last Updated
2026-05-26
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Wearable-Based Real-Time Emotional Awareness and Cognitive Reappraisal Training
This behavioral intervention combined wearable-based physiological prompting, real-time emotion identification, and third-person cognitive reappraisal. Participants wore a smartwatch that monitored heart rate continuously. When heart rate exceeded 20% above the individualized baseline, the device delivered a vibration prompt. Participants identified their current emotion from six basic emotion categories. During the reappraisal phase, they recorded the triggering event, emotion category, emotional intensity, and thoughts, and then completed a third-person perspective-taking reappraisal exercise.
Retrospective Emotion Journaling and Cognitive Reappraisal Training
This behavioral intervention combined daily end-of-day emotional reflection with third-person cognitive reappraisal. Participants recalled an emotionally salient event from that day, recorded the emotion category, emotional intensity, and thoughts experienced at the time of the event, and then reinterpreted the event from the perspective of a personally significant or neutral third-person figure. They subsequently reported their post-reappraisal emotion category, emotional intensity, and new thoughts.
Locations (1)
亞洲大學
Taichung, Taiwan