Emotional Processing Scale, 25 items, 5 factors

What dimensions does it measure?

Problematic emotional processing styles

Mind & Body₪

Impoverished emotional experience

“Poor emotional intelligence”“Emotionally unaware”“Alexithymic”“mild asbergers”“somatizer”“Emotionally illiterate”

INPUTEVENT

memoryof input

past memoriesemotion schemas

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

experienced as gestalt

awareness

labelling

linking

EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION

experience expressioninput

C O N T R O L O F E M O T I O N S

Impoverished Emotional Experience

• Detached• Unpleasant• Confusing• Vague affiliations• Vague attributions

Appraisal

Of meaning of event

Of emotion

e.g. “My emotions felt blunt/dull”

“I was unable to work out if I felt ill or emotional”

Mind & Body₪

Signs of unprocessed emotion

INPUTEVENT

memoryof input

past memoriesemotion schemas

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

experienced as gestalt

awareness

labelling

linking

EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION

experience expressioninput

C O N T R O L O F E M O T I O N S

Signs of unprocessed emotion

• Intrusive and persistent emotional experience; the results of poor emotional processing

Of emotion

Appraisal

Of meaning of event

e.g. “Unwanted feelings kept intruding”

“I repeatedly experienced the same emotion”

Mind & Body₪

Avoidance

INPUTEVENT

memoryof input

past memoriesemotion schemas

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

experienced as gestalt

awareness

labelling

linking

EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION

experience expressioninput

C O N T R O L O F E M O T I O N S

Avoidance

• Evading emotional triggers

Of meaning of event

Appraisal

Of emotion

e.g. “I tried hard to avoid things that might upset me”

“I tried to only talk about pleasant things”

Mind & Body₪

Suppression

INPUTEVENT

memoryof input

past memoriesemotion schemas

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

experienced as gestalt

awareness

labelling

linking

EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION

experience expressioninput

C O N T R O L O F E M O T I O N S

Suppression

• Excessive emotional control

Of emotion

Of meaning of event

Appraisal

e.g. “I bottled up my emotions”

“I kept quiet about my feelings”

Mind & Body₪

Unregulated Emotion

INPUTEVENT

memoryof input

past memoriesemotion schemas

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

experienced as gestalt

awareness

labelling

linking

EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION

experience expressioninput

C O N T R O L O F E M O T I O N S

Unregulated Emotion

• Inability to control emotion

Appraisal

Of meaning of event

Of emotion

E.g. “When upset or angry it was difficult to control what I said”

“ I reacted too much to what people said or did”