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Real-Time and Retrospective Emotion Awareness With Cognitive Reappraisal Training

NCT07607834 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 42

Last updated 2026-05-26

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Summary

This pilot randomized active-comparison study examined two formats of emotional awareness and cognitive reappraisal training for adults with co-occurring anxiety and depressive symptoms. Participants were assigned to either a real-time awareness group or a retrospective awareness group. The real-time awareness group used a smartwatch-based heart-rate prompting system to identify emotions in daily life and later complete cognitive reappraisal exercises. The retrospective awareness group completed daily evening reflection and cognitive reappraisal exercises based on emotional events from that day. The study lasted six weeks and included assessments at baseline, mid-intervention, and post-intervention. Outcomes included anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, emotional clarity, mood repair, cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, and psychological well-being. The purpose of the study was to examine preliminary patterns of change and compare how the two formats may support emotion regulation processes.

Conditions

  • Anxiety Symptoms
  • Depressive Symptoms
  • Emotion Regulation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Wearable-Based Real-Time Emotional Awareness and Cognitive Reappraisal Training

This behavioral intervention combined wearable-based physiological prompting, real-time emotion identification, and third-person cognitive reappraisal. Participants wore a smartwatch that monitored heart rate continuously. When heart rate exceeded 20% above the individualized baseline, the device delivered a vibration prompt. Participants identified their current emotion from six basic emotion categories. During the reappraisal phase, they recorded the triggering event, emotion category, emotional intensity, and thoughts, and then completed a third-person perspective-taking reappraisal exercise.

BEHAVIORAL

Retrospective Emotion Journaling and Cognitive Reappraisal Training

This behavioral intervention combined daily end-of-day emotional reflection with third-person cognitive reappraisal. Participants recalled an emotionally salient event from that day, recorded the emotion category, emotional intensity, and thoughts experienced at the time of the event, and then reinterpreted the event from the perspective of a personally significant or neutral third-person figure. They subsequently reported their post-reappraisal emotion category, emotional intensity, and new thoughts.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Asia University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Han-Yun Chang, Ph.D. · Asia University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-01-25
Primary Completion
2024-06-20
Completion
2024-06-20

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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