TY - JOUR
T1 - Did my heart just leap or sink?
T2 - The role of personality for the relation between cardiac interoception and well-being
AU - Erle, Thorsten M.
AU - Mitschke, Vanessa
AU - Schultchen, Dana
N1 - This research was funded by a Seedcorn Grant provided by the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) to the first author.
The study was approved by the local ethics committee at the University of Würzburg. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Interoceptive accuracy (IAc), the ability to perceive signals from within the body, has been linked to many beneficial health outcomes but also to psychopathologies such as anxiety disorders. Therefore, its relation to a person's subjective well-being (SWB) is unclear. Here, we predicted that individuals who are prone to interpreting interoceptive signals positively benefit from IAc and exhibit higher SWB. In contrast, individuals with predispositions towards negative interpretations suffer from it, resulting in lower SWB. Participants completed a measure of cardiac IAc, measures of extraversion, neuroticism, optimism and pessimism as personality traits that have been related to positive and negative attributional styles, and various measures of well-being. Psychiatric and physical well-being were predicted by the interaction between optimism/pessimism and IAc. While for optimistic participants, IAc did not predict higher well-being, for pessimistic individuals, it predicted lower well-being. These findings shed light on the role of interoception for SWB and its adaptiveness for individuals with different personalities.
AB - Interoceptive accuracy (IAc), the ability to perceive signals from within the body, has been linked to many beneficial health outcomes but also to psychopathologies such as anxiety disorders. Therefore, its relation to a person's subjective well-being (SWB) is unclear. Here, we predicted that individuals who are prone to interpreting interoceptive signals positively benefit from IAc and exhibit higher SWB. In contrast, individuals with predispositions towards negative interpretations suffer from it, resulting in lower SWB. Participants completed a measure of cardiac IAc, measures of extraversion, neuroticism, optimism and pessimism as personality traits that have been related to positive and negative attributional styles, and various measures of well-being. Psychiatric and physical well-being were predicted by the interaction between optimism/pessimism and IAc. While for optimistic participants, IAc did not predict higher well-being, for pessimistic individuals, it predicted lower well-being. These findings shed light on the role of interoception for SWB and its adaptiveness for individuals with different personalities.
KW - Appraisals
KW - Interoception
KW - Interoceptive accuracy
KW - Personality
KW - Subjective well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095852948&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110493
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110493
M3 - Article
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
ER -