expressed emotion

English

Noun

expressed emotion (countable and uncountable, plural expressed emotions)

  1. (uncountable, psychiatry) Negative or hostile attitudes expressed towards a person affected by mental illness by their family.
    • 2022 July 21, Siu-Man Ng, Siyu Gao, Amenda Man Wang, Christine Cheuk, Melody Hiu-ying Fung, “Survey of High Expressed Emotions Experienced By Community Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, volume 3, number 1, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1:
      High expressed emotion (EE) experienced by people with mental illness is a known risk factor of relapse.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see expressed,‎ emotion.
    • 2022 December 8, Eric Mayor, Marcel Miché, Roselind Lieb, “Associations between emotions expressed in internet news and subsequent emotional content on twitter”, in Heliyon, Cambridge, M.A.: Cell Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 2, column 2:
      Social media research has shown that expressed emotions are propagated among social media users (e.g., Coviello et al., 2014; Kramer et al., 2014).

Derived terms
  • EE (abbreviation)

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