Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity: How to manage intense emotions as a highly sensitive person - learn more about yourself with this life-changing self help book

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Izard, C. E., Dougherty, F. E., Bloxom, B. M., & Kotsch, W. E. (1974). The differential emotions scale: A method of measuring the subjective experience of discrete emotions. Unpublished manuscript, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Finally, higher interoceptive sensibility and emotional conceptualization scores are considered to reflect a more efficient functioning of the underlying components, leading to a better adaptation to the environment, and in turn, higher well-being ( Ainley et al., 2016; Barrett et al., 2016; Khalsa et al., 2018; Hoemann et al., 2020). To test for that, we further examined the association between individual differences in interoceptive sensibility and emotional conceptualization and subjective reports of adaptability and well-being. Materials and Methods Participants Neither granularity scores for positive nor negative emotions showed a significant association with the factor scores. For positive emotions: Monitoring: t(84) = −1.0, p = 0.31, β = −0.109; Sensibility: t(84) = −0.50, p = 0.61, β = −0.056; Monitoring × Sensibility: t(84) = −0.05, p = 0.96, β = −0.01. For negative emotions: Monitoring: t(84) = −0.5, p = 0.61, β = −0.054; Sensibility: t(84) = 0.45, p = 0.65, β = 0.05; Monitoring × Sensibility: t(84) = 0.89, p = 0.39, β = 0.09. Day Reconstruction Method (DRM)Larsen, J. T., Norris, C. J., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003). Effects of positive and negative affect on electromyographic activity over zygomaticus major and corrugator supercilii. Psychophysiology, 40, 776–785. You have a niggling feeling that there is something important you need to be doing, and would like to have a clearer vision. The Monitoring factor reflects a general tendency to devote attentional resources to the internal physiological and emotional states of an individual. The role of selective and executive attention is crucial in the construction and experience of emotions ( Barrett, 2017a; Smith et al., 2019). Which aspect of the ongoing processing the attention is deployed to, e.g., either to the bodily changes, or the surrounding environment, may have a strong influence on the interpretation of the current state of an individual ( Barrett et al., 2004). Emotional intensity was taken as the intensity of the emotional word with the highest rating for each trial, which was averaged across trials. Emotional arousal was extracted by averaging the experienced arousal across trials in the ED task. Because intensity and arousal scores were negatively skewed ( skewness>−0.79), they were normalized using the following formula: sqrt(max(S + 1) – S), where S refers to the mean intensity/arousal scores. Normal distribution was achieved after applying this transformation (0.06 < skewness< 0.09).

Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity is my first book. I suggest this as an introduction to this work. You have a sense that you are not reaching your full potential, and you are ready for your unique gifts and creative calling. Each of the two sessions of the study lasted for about 45 min. In the first session, participants first completed a demographic questionnaire. Thereafter, the description of the ED task was provided. After being informed that the ED task contained very explicit scenes (e.g., mutilations or sex-related contents), participants could choose whether to perform the ED task or not. If they did decide to perform the ED task, the instructions for the task were presented and, after two practice trials, the main task was conducted. Thereafter, the instructions for the DRM were presented followed by the task. If participants decided not to take part in the ED task, they were immediately directed to the DRM task. As identification and matching tasks assessed the emotion recognition of five same-face expressions, a repeated-measure ANOVA was conducted with the age groups as a between-subject factor (age 4 to 12 and adults), task (Identification vs. Matching) and emotion (happiness, sadness, anger, surprise versus neutral) as within-subject factors.A second limitation is the study’s qualitative nature itself. As an investigation into the subjective experience of ES, the current study in unable to quantitatively contribute to measurement of the construct. For example, it is not entirely clear that participants conceptualized emotional sensitivity only as sensitivity to stimuli. A few participants included in their definition or discussion feelings of greater emotional intensity than others – the second “step” in models of emotion dysregulation. This suggests the current study may not purely capture the unique experience of ES but of other components in the emotion dysregulation process as well. However, the majority of participants did define ES as, and focus their discussion on, sensitivity to environmental and interpersonal stimuli. This distinction between emotional sensitivity and intensity may be an area in need of future consideration given that some measures of emotion dysregulation have suggested through factor analysis that these constructs may not be distinct in measurement [ 11]. Future studies should complement the qualitative approach used here with quantitative self-report measures or experimental measures in a larger sample to clarify these distinctions. It is only through multiple levels of analyses that the nomological network supporting this construct can be fully determined [ 23]. This book is for you. Learn how to cope with intense feelings, and discover how to use your sensitivity, empathy and intelligence to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. All your life, you have felt different to others or wondered if there is something wrong with you. You have been told that you are ‘too much,’ ‘too intense,’ ‘too sensitive,’ ‘too emotional.