Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap

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“…Moreover, the relationship between participants' ability to perceive interoceptive signals and long‐term stress was mediated by enhanced self‐regulation. In general, these results extend the research of Khalsa et al (), showing that better interoception is increasingly recognized as an important component of a better mental health condition. Furthermore, it would be interesting to study the effect of interventions that target the enhancement of IAcc as a means to reduce long‐term stress.…”

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Interoceptive accuracy is related to long‐term stress via self‐regulation

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Interoception describes the ability to perceive internal bodily signals. Previous research found a relationship between interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) and cardiovascular outcomes during or after acute stress. So far, the association between IAcc and long‐term stress has not been investigated, although this would be important to identify a starting point to prevent long‐term stress. To address this idea in the current study, we examined the relationship between IAcc and long‐term stress, which was assessed with different questionnaires and biological markers, including cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). Furthermore, we investigated self‐regulation as a mechanism linking IAcc to long‐term stress. The sample consisted of 98 participants. To measure IAcc, participants completed the heartbeat perception task. Perceived long‐term stress and self‐regulation were assessed via an online questionnaire. Moreover, hair samples were taken from 65 participants to determine long‐term stress with cortisol and DHEA as well as the ratio of both. Results showed that IAcc was positively related to DHEA and weakly negatively related to the other indicators of long‐term stress, except for the nonsignificant relationships to the indicators cortisol and stress experiences due to negative events. Furthermore, these relationships were mediated by participants' enhanced self‐regulation. Thus, our results suggest that enhanced self‐regulation could be a mechanism explaining why IAcc is associated with long‐term stress.

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Interoceptive accuracy is related to long‐term stress via self‐regulation

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“…Recently, the concept of interoception has become more inclusive. In the broadest sense, it encompasses proprioceptive, tactile, and thermal information, pain, and also the phenomenological experience of body state (Ceunen, Vlaeyen, & Van Diest, 2016;Craig, 2015;Khalsa et al, 2017;Mehling et al, 2009;Tsakiris & Critchley, 2016;Wiens, 2005). Interoception is a multidimensional construct, consisting of at least two independent dimensions: the subjective-phenomenological aspect (interoceptive sensibility, as assessed by questionnaires) and the ability to detect internal sensory events (interoceptive accuracy, measured using behavioral tasks; Garfinkel, Seth, Barrett, Suzuki, & Critchley, 2015).…”

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Do body‐related sensations make feel us better? Subjective well‐being is associated only with the subjective aspect of interoception

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According to the proposition of several theoretical accounts, the perception of the bodily cues, interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive sensibility, has a significant positive impact on subjective well‐being. Others assume a negative association; however, empirical evidence is scarce. In this study, 142 young adults completed questionnaires assessing subjective well‐being, interoceptive sensibility, and subjective somatic symptoms and participated in measurements of proprioceptive accuracy (reproduction of the angle of the elbow joint), gastric sensitivity (water load test), and heartbeat tracking ability (Schandry task). Subjective well‐being showed weak to medium positive associations with interoceptive sensibility and weak negative associations with symptom reports. No associations with measures of interoceptive accuracy were found. Gastric sensitivity as opposed to heartbeat perception and proprioceptive accuracy moderated the association between interoceptive sensibility and well‐being. Thus, subjective well‐being is associated only with the self‐reported (perceived) aspect of interoception but not related to the sensory measures of interoceptive accuracy.

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“… The first three represent commonly examined facets of interoception (Khalsa et al, ). Knowledge is introduced here as a new facet. …”

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Mothers' interoceptive knowledge predicts children's emotion regulation and social skills in middle childhood

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Interoception, often defined as the perception of internal physiological changes, is implicated in many adult social affective processes, but its effects remain understudied in the context of parental socialization of children's emotions. We hypothesized that what parents know about the interoceptive concomitants of emotions, or interoceptive knowledge (e.g., “my heart races when excited”), may be especially relevant in emotion socialization and in supporting children's working models of emotions and the social world. We developed a measure of mothers' interoceptive knowledge about their own emotions and examined its relation to children's social affective outcomes relative to other socialization factors, including self‐reported parental behaviors, emotion beliefs, and knowledge of emotion‐relevant situations and non‐verbal expressions. To assess these, mothers (N = 201) completed structured interviews and questionnaires. A few months later, third‐grade teachers rated children's social skills and emotion regulation observed in the classroom. Results indicated that mothers' interoceptive knowledge about their own emotions was associated with children's social affective skills (emotion regulation, social initiative, cooperation, self‐control), even after controlling for child gender and ethnicity, family income, maternal stress, and the above maternal socialization factors. Overall, findings suggest that mothers' interoceptive knowledge may provide an additional, unique pathway by which children acquire social affective competence.

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Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap

Cited by 778 publications

References 148 publications

Interoceptive accuracy is related to long‐term stress via self‐regulation

Interoceptive accuracy is related to long‐term stress via self‐regulation

Do body‐related sensations make feel us better? Subjective well‐being is associated only with the subjective aspect of interoception

Mothers' interoceptive knowledge predicts children's emotion regulation and social skills in middle childhood

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