Self-Insight

The capacity to accurately understand one's own emotions, motivations, strengths, and patterns of thought and behaviour. Self-insight is a core outcome of therapy, journaling, and reflective practice, and is associated with improved emotion regulation, life satisfaction, and relationship quality. For accessibility, technologies that support self-insight must account for differences in emotional granularity and alexithymia (common in autism, some DHH populations, and people with traumatic brain injury), and should avoid imposing normative emotional scripts. Imagery-based, narrative, or creative-arts prompts often scaffold self-insight more accessibly than direct "how do you feel?" questions.