Self-Regret
Dimension 901 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Self-Regret measures the extent to which an expression reflects negative evaluation of one's past choices, actions, and life course. It encompasses disappointment about missed opportunities, rumination about mistakes, and self-critical judgments about having acted foolishly or failed to make progress.
evidence final name · Stupid Foolish
Minimal Self-Regret
Expressions activating this band do not show a clear pattern of regret about past choices or actions, or mention life circumstances in a diffuse and noncommittal way without self-reproach.
Mild Self-Regret
Expressions activating this band convey dissatisfaction with life or missed opportunities, with some sense that things could have been better, but without sustained self-condemnation about specific past mistakes.
Moderate Self-Regret
Expressions activating this band focus on mistakes, poor judgment, or unrealized goals while retaining some acceptance, perspective, or belief that outcomes may still have worked out acceptably.
High Self-Regret
Expressions activating this band show recurring regret about past involvement, choices, or failures to learn, with explicit wishing to undo mistakes or frustration about repeated poor decisions.
Severe Self-Regret
Expressions activating this band present blunt, global self-reproach for past behavior, describing one's decisions or actions as stupid, foolish, or embarrassing.
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Minimal Stupid Foolish: Content characterized by macro, front, tab, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect stupid foolish at this level.
Emerging Stupid Foolish: Content characterized by huge, poor, silly, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect stupid foolish at this level.
Elevated Stupid Foolish: Content characterized by mistake, fix, after, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect stupid foolish at this level.
Severe Stupid Foolish: Content characterized by fool, mistake, know, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect stupid foolish at this level.