Meta-emotion
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Meta-emotion refers to the emotional reactions to one's own emotion
s (second-order emotions about primary emotions). An example would be being angry (the primary emotion) and being afraid of one's anger (the meta-emotion).
Meta-emotions can be short-term or long-term. The latter can be a source of discouragement or even psychological repression
, or encouragement of specific emotions, having implications for personality traits, psychodynamics
, family and group dynamics
, organizational climate, emotional disorders, but also emotional awareness
, and emotional intelligence
.
Meta-emotion was first defined by Gottman et al. in 1996, encompasing both thoughts and feelings about emotions. Initial studies examined how parents discussed the emotions of their children and their attitudes towards these emotions. The theory of meta-emotions was an unexpected result of their initial work.
Emotion
Emotion is a complex psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical and environmental influences. In humans, emotion fundamentally involves "physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience." Emotion is associated with mood,...
s (second-order emotions about primary emotions). An example would be being angry (the primary emotion) and being afraid of one's anger (the meta-emotion).
Meta-emotions can be short-term or long-term. The latter can be a source of discouragement or even psychological repression
Psychological repression
Psychological repression, also psychic repression or simply repression, is the psychological attempt by an individual to repel one's own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts by excluding the desire from one's consciousness and holding or subduing it in the unconscious...
, or encouragement of specific emotions, having implications for personality traits, psychodynamics
Psychodynamics
Psychodynamics is the theory and systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, especially the dynamic relations between conscious motivation and unconscious motivation...
, family and group dynamics
Group dynamics
Group dynamics refers to a system of behaviors and psychological processes that occur within a social group , or between social groups...
, organizational climate, emotional disorders, but also emotional awareness
Awareness
Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of...
, and emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence is a skill or ability in the case of the trait EI model, a self-perceived ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups. Various models and definitions have been proposed of which the ability and trait EI models are the most...
.
Meta-emotion was first defined by Gottman et al. in 1996, encompasing both thoughts and feelings about emotions. Initial studies examined how parents discussed the emotions of their children and their attitudes towards these emotions. The theory of meta-emotions was an unexpected result of their initial work.
