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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-10 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001748

Andrea Putica, Hope O'Brien, Rahul Khanna, James Agathos

{"title":"Alexithymia and paradoxical regulatory success in posttraumatic stress: An ecological momentary assessment study.","authors":"Andrea Putica, Hope O'Brien, Rahul Khanna, James Agathos","doi":"10.1037/emo0001748","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001748","url":null,"abstract":"Alexithymia, difficulty identifying and describing feelings, is associated with posttraumatic stress symptomology, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We tested whether alexithymia's regulatory effects operate through disrupted emotion regulation monitoring, the capacity to accurately evaluate whether regulation has succeeded, or broader interoceptive deficits that compromise access to bodily emotional signals. Trauma-exposed participants (N = 49) completed baseline measures of alexithymia, posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression, anxiety, and interoceptive awareness, followed by three waves of ecological momentary assessment. At each wave, participants received five daily prompts for 5 consecutive days across 3 months (2,420 observations), reporting emotional clarity, perceived regulation success, body connection, and response-focused strategies (rumination, emotional hiding, pretending). Lagged models showed that among individuals high in alexithymia, higher perceived regulation success paradoxically predicted lower next-assessment emotional clarity, and greater emotional hiding and perceived success predicted worsening posttraumatic stress symptoms over 3 months. Interoceptive findings were mixed: Emotional awareness predicted better outcomes at the person level, but momentary body connection showed inconsistent associations. These findings reveal a paradoxical pattern in which subjective impressions of regulatory success precede worsening downstream emotional outcomes among individuals high in alexithymia. This pattern is consistent with a disrupted regulatory monitoring account, although whether it reflects miscalibrated evaluation, divergent regulatory goals, or systematic reporting biases cannot be determined from self-report alone and warrants replication in larger samples with objective indicators of emotional change. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148931519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The price of rejection: How social feedback influences spending on social experiences. 拒绝的代价：社会反馈如何影响在社会体验上的消费。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-10 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001744

Jordan M Dejoie, Melanie Ruiz, Sarah Gallardo, Peter Sokol-Hessner, David V Smith, Dominic S Fareri

{"title":"The price of rejection: How social feedback influences spending on social experiences.","authors":"Jordan M Dejoie, Melanie Ruiz, Sarah Gallardo, Peter Sokol-Hessner, David V Smith, Dominic S Fareri","doi":"10.1037/emo0001744","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001744","url":null,"abstract":"In our increasingly digital world, understanding how negative online social experiences shape the value of social opportunities is critical. We examined whether social rejection alters individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for hypothetical social versus nonsocial experiences. In a two-part preregistered experiment (N = 98), participants uploaded Instagram photos and completed a simulated social media task in which they received randomized positive and negative feedback on their photos from anonymous peers. During the task, participants also made 100 decisions in which they could hypothetically \"purchase\" personally meaningful social and nonsocial activities. Participants preferred social experiences overall but, following social rejection, spent significantly less of an endowment on social options. Exploratory analyses revealed that individual differences in social connectedness and reward sensitivity modulated sensitivity to the relative cost of social experiences. These findings suggest that rejection does not reduce the underlying value of social connection but influences choice by increasing sensitivity to emotional and contextual factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148931662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Explaining emotion co-occurrence: Comparison of parsimonious, formal theories using multimodal, within-person data. 解释情感共现：使用多模态、个人数据的简洁、形式化理论的比较。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-10 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001740

Sebastian Kueppers, Janis H Zickfeld, Shukoofeh Ghadertootoonchi, Jens Lange

{"title":"Explaining emotion co-occurrence: Comparison of parsimonious, formal theories using multimodal, within-person data.","authors":"Sebastian Kueppers, Janis H Zickfeld, Shukoofeh Ghadertootoonchi, Jens Lange","doi":"10.1037/emo0001740","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001740","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion theories should explain when and how emotions co-occur. Investigating emotion co-occurrence, Lange and Zickfeld (2023) found support for the network theory of emotions. This theory suggests that emotions co-occur because the networks of interacting components that represent emotions partly overlap. However, Lange and Zickfeld's evidence is limited to self-reports and between-person analyses. We substantially extended their work by applying between- and within-person network analytic tools to self-report, physiological (i.e., heart rate, respiration rate, skin conductance, goosebumps), and facial expression data of awe and fear. We compared five parsimonious, formalized theories of emotion co-occurrence derived from distinct emotion, network, and dimensional approaches to emotions. Consistent with Lange and Zickfeld's findings, between-person analyses showed that the network theory best explains the co-occurrence of awe and fear. In contrast, the within-person analyses did not allow definitive conclusions regarding the competing theories. We discuss the utility of theory formalization and highlight the need for the collection of within-person, multimodal emotion data for advancing research on emotion co-occurrence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148931578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Depressed individuals want to feel more unpleasant emotions in daily life, but try harder to decrease them. 抑郁症患者希望在日常生活中感受到更多不愉快的情绪，但他们会更努力地减少这些情绪。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-05 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001663

Shir Mizrahi Lakan, Danfei Hu, Yael Millgram, Mor Nahum, Orly Shimony, Elad Zlotnick, Maya Tamir

{"title":"Depressed individuals want to feel more unpleasant emotions in daily life, but try harder to decrease them.","authors":"Shir Mizrahi Lakan, Danfei Hu, Yael Millgram, Mor Nahum, Orly Shimony, Elad Zlotnick, Maya Tamir","doi":"10.1037/emo0001663","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001663","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research has demonstrated that depressed individuals want to feel relatively more intense sadness and less intense happiness than nondepressed individuals do. However, it has rarely been tested whether these differences extend to daily life and how they might be related to attempts to regulate emotions. We assessed what depressed (n = 58) and nondepressed (n = 62) individuals wanted to feel in daily life and how much they tried to regulate their emotions, using Ecological Momentary Assessments. To better understand motivated emotion regulation in depression and what underlies it, we moved beyond sadness and happiness and targeted four discrete emotions that differ by valence and arousal (i.e., sadness, anxiety, happiness, and calmness). Data were collected during 2021-2022. We found that while both depressed and nondepressed individuals reported wanting very low levels of unpleasant emotions, depressed individuals wanted to feel more sadness and anxiety and less happiness in daily life than nondepressed individuals did. At the same time, depressed individuals attempted to decrease their sadness and anxiety more than nondepressed individuals did. Our conclusions are limited to a sample of relatively young adult students. Our findings suggest that emotion dysregulation in depression may involve a misalignment between what individuals want to feel and how they attempt to regulate their emotions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1395-1406"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147367010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emotional specificity and attributional clarity in daily life: Associations with depression, rumination, and overgeneralizing cognitions. 日常生活中的情绪特异性和归因清晰度：与抑郁、反刍和过度概括认知的关系。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001667

Jaimie M Lunsford, Kari M Eddington

{"title":"Emotional specificity and attributional clarity in daily life: Associations with depression, rumination, and overgeneralizing cognitions.","authors":"Jaimie M Lunsford, Kari M Eddington","doi":"10.1037/emo0001667","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001667","url":null,"abstract":"This study used a qualitative approach to examine how specificity in emotional labeling (reflecting greater differentiation) and clarity of emotion attributions in daily life are associated with depressive symptoms and cognition (rumination and overgeneralization). Participants were 191 young adults (74% female, racially/ethnically diverse, mean age 19) who completed baseline measures and a 14-day daily diary that included two prompts about their current experience of negative emotion. Participant-generated negative emotion labels and open-ended descriptions were coded for level of specificity and attributional clarity, respectively, by two trained coders with acceptable interrater agreement. Results revealed that participants made use of many nonstandard labels (87% of words) to describe their emotions, words that would not have been captured using standard emotion rating scales. Momentary specificity was unrelated to momentary rumination and overgeneralizing cognitions and was also unrelated to traditionally derived negative emotion differentiation (using intraclass correlations). However, attributional clarity significantly predicted momentary rumination and overgeneralizing as well as depressive symptoms. Our results point to limitations with specificity coding but suggest that momentary attributions may play a pivotal role in depression and depression-related cognitions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1564-1572"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147475926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Staying connected: How close friendships supported emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. 保持联系：在COVID-19大流行期间，亲密的友谊如何支持情感健康。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-19 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001661

Ovidia A Stanoi, Danielle Cosme, Mia Jovanova, Yoona Kang, Faustine Corbani, Amanda L McGowan, José Carreras-Tartak, Anthony Resnick, Zachary M Boyd, Dani S Bassett, David M Lydon-Staley, Peter J Mucha, Emily B Falk, Kevin N Ochsner

{"title":"Staying connected: How close friendships supported emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Ovidia A Stanoi, Danielle Cosme, Mia Jovanova, Yoona Kang, Faustine Corbani, Amanda L McGowan, José Carreras-Tartak, Anthony Resnick, Zachary M Boyd, Dani S Bassett, David M Lydon-Staley, Peter J Mucha, Emily B Falk, Kevin N Ochsner","doi":"10.1037/emo0001661","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001661","url":null,"abstract":"Close social relationships are critical for emotional well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted in-person contact with friends, particularly among young adults, for whom friendships support key developmental goals. In a longitudinal study of U.S. college students (N = 205; 10,088 observations), we examined how close friendship networks related to emotional well-being during the early months of the pandemic (May-October 2020). Leveraging prepandemic social network data and 28 days of ecological momentary assessments of affect and social interactions, we found that students with more close college friends reported higher positive affect and lower negative affect in daily life, even while physically separated from those friends. These individuals were buffered from the emotional toll of pandemic-related stressors, a pattern not explained by personality, interaction frequency, or living conditions. Rather, participants with more close friends experienced higher quality online interactions. Additionally, personal disclosures, whether in-person or online, were consistently associated with greater feelings of closeness. Notably, individuals with fewer close friends showed the largest boost in closeness following partner disclosures, suggesting that emotional sharing may play a compensatory role for those with limited social ties. These findings illustrate how friendships can continue to shape affective experiences from afar and highlight disclosure as a key mechanism through which closeness and its emotional benefits can be cultivated. Integrating social network structure, daily affect, and interaction-level processes, this work advances affective science by providing evidence of how the social regulation of emotion extends beyond physical proximity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1361-1377"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147487830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Nonverbal Emotion Assessment Tool (NEAT): An intercultural validation. 非语言情绪评估工具（NEAT）：跨文化验证。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001651

Matthias Pache, Lena Miketta, Rainer Banse, Milena Elchinova, Taufik Mohammad, Ursula Hess

{"title":"The Nonverbal Emotion Assessment Tool (NEAT): An intercultural validation.","authors":"Matthias Pache, Lena Miketta, Rainer Banse, Milena Elchinova, Taufik Mohammad, Ursula Hess","doi":"10.1037/emo0001651","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001651","url":null,"abstract":"This research aimed to validate a newly developed tool for the assessment of emotions. The \"Nonverbal Emotion Assessment Tool\" (NEAT) is based on schematic facial expressions of emotions and serves to capture both quantitative and qualitative dimensions of common emotions. Study 1 (N = 126) was conducted with primary school children (6-11 years), who matched the emotions represented in vignettes to the emotional facial expressions of the NEAT. Although the children's recognition rates varied across emotions, they were overall moderately accurate. Older children did not perform substantially better than younger children. Study 2 validated the NEAT scales with adult participants from Germany (N = 102), Bulgaria (N = 116), and Malaysia (N = 132). Cross-country intraclass correlations revealed cultural differences in emotion perception, yet the construct validity was high. Comparisons of the two European samples with the Southeast Asian sample yielded a lower level of agreement across countries than the comparison of the two European samples, suggesting more similarities between the German and Bulgarian samples and stronger differences between the European and the Malaysian sample. Together, these findings provide evidence that the NEAT is a useful and valid tool for the assessment of emotions in child and adult samples from different areas of the world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1407-1425"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146167447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Leader choices reflect cultural differences in ideal affect more during organizational growth than decline. 在组织成长过程中，领导者选择反映出文化差异的理想效应大于组织衰退过程。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-09 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001634

Lucy Z Bencharit, Elizabeth Blevins, Michael Ko, Yang Qu, Dwight C K Tse, Helene H Fung, Jeanne L Tsai

{"title":"Leader choices reflect cultural differences in ideal affect more during organizational growth than decline.","authors":"Lucy Z Bencharit, Elizabeth Blevins, Michael Ko, Yang Qu, Dwight C K Tse, Helene H Fung, Jeanne L Tsai","doi":"10.1037/emo0001634","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001634","url":null,"abstract":"What emotions do people prefer in their leaders, and do these emotional preferences vary depending on how their organizations are performing? In three studies conducted between 2018 and 2023 with European American, East Asian American, and Hong Kong Chinese participants, we predicted that people would choose leaders whose emotional expressions matched their culture's ideal affect (the affective states they value) more during growth, when conditions are favorable and people default to cultural ideals, than during decline, when conditions are unfavorable, and people are more open to other options. In Study 1 (N = 304), participants imagined that their own organizations were undergoing growth or decline and rated the emotions they would ideally like their leaders to have. In Studies 2 (N = 449) and 3 (N = 558), participants read hypothetical scenarios of student organizations undergoing growth and decline, and chose a leader among excited, calm, and neutral candidates. Across the studies, during growth, European Americans and East Asian Americans chose excited candidates more and calm candidates less than did Hong Kong Chinese, consistent with cultural differences in the valuation of high arousal positive affect. During decline, however, these cultural differences disappeared. Moreover, in Study 3, participants' ideal high arousal positive affect predicted their positive judgments of the excited candidate when conditions were favorable but not when they were unfavorable, suggesting one mechanism underlying these cultural differences in leader choice. Together, these studies suggest that people prefer leaders who express culturally ideal emotions more during organizational growth than decline. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1529-1550"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147391266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Resilience in the face of racial discrimination: The role of emotional acceptance. 面对种族歧视的复原力：情感接纳的作用。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001638

Arasteh Gatchpazian, Amanda J Shallcross, Allison S Troy, Jolaade Kalinowski, Brett Q Ford

{"title":"Resilience in the face of racial discrimination: The role of emotional acceptance.","authors":"Arasteh Gatchpazian, Amanda J Shallcross, Allison S Troy, Jolaade Kalinowski, Brett Q Ford","doi":"10.1037/emo0001638","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001638","url":null,"abstract":"Racial discrimination has severe adverse mental and physical health consequences for Black Americans. As such, it is critical to understand how best to help protect the health of Black Americans in the face of this stressor. The emotional burden of chronic stress represents a key pathway through which stress damages health; thus, the ability to manage this emotional burden using emotion regulation may represent a core protective factor. Racial discrimination targets individuals' identities, which may have important implications for which regulation strategies will be most helpful. We predicted that successfully using strategies that are more likely to validate individuals' experiences (e.g., emotional acceptance) may be particularly helpful. Other strategies that are less likely to validate individuals' experiences may be less helpful (e.g., cognitive reappraisal). In a sample of Black individuals (N = 504, data from 2018), the link between discrimination and multiple indices of worse health was consistently buffered for people who reported more successful use of emotional acceptance, but not for those who reported more successful use of reappraisal or suppression. These patterns were replicated in a follow-up time point predicting mental health 2 years later (N = 251). These findings underscore the crucial role of context for emotion regulation, suggesting that emotional acceptance may be a uniquely useful approach that protects the health of Black Americans by validating justified emotions in the context of racial discrimination. This work underscores a useful pathway for culturally competent psychosocial interventions for reducing anxiety, depression, and stress-related chronic illness in Black Americans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1426-1448"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146214225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Age moderates the association between helping and meaning in daily life. 年龄调节日常生活中帮助和意义之间的联系。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-19 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001665

Enna Y Chen, Claire M Growney, Laura L Carstensen

{"title":"Age moderates the association between helping and meaning in daily life.","authors":"Enna Y Chen, Claire M Growney, Laura L Carstensen","doi":"10.1037/emo0001665","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001665","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examined age differences in everyday prosocial behavior as well as its associated experienced meaning and emotions. In this study, with data collected from 2004 to 2005, a total of 180 participants aged 18-93 years completed an experience sampling procedure (five times a day for 7 days), where they reported the activities they were engaged in, the degree to which their present experiences were meaningful, and the emotions they were feeling. Age was positively associated with the frequency of helping others, and helping was related to greater experienced meaning at the between-person level. At the between-person level, helping was also associated with more positive emotional experience (and unrelated to negative emotional experience), and this effect was stronger for older than younger participants. At the within-person level, helping was associated with more momentary negative (but not positive) emotions. Within-individual analyses also showed that on occasions when participants were helping others, they reported more meaning than at moments when they were engaging in nonhelping activities. Findings are consistent with previous evidence for greater charitable giving in older people than younger people and extend prosocial acts to encompass helping others in daily life. Findings also suggest that individuals may experience negative emotions while helping others, but high overall frequencies of helping were associated with reports of greater positive emotion and meaning across adulthood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1336-1345"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12922490/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146229155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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