Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-05-28eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00301-4
Tak Tsun Lo, Maaike Verhagen, J Loes Pouwels, Eeske van Roekel, Sarah T O'Brien, Gillian Debra, Jolien Braet, Jacqueline M Vink, Dominique F Maciejewski
{"title":"Emotion Differentiation in Adolescents: Short-term Trade-offs with Regulation Variability and Emotion Intensity.","authors":"Tak Tsun Lo, Maaike Verhagen, J Loes Pouwels, Eeske van Roekel, Sarah T O'Brien, Gillian Debra, Jolien Braet, Jacqueline M Vink, Dominique F Maciejewski","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00301-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00301-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion differentiation-distinctively labeling emotions-is theorized to guide adolescents in regulating emotions amid changing daily life situations. Momentary fluctuations in emotion differentiation are expected to introduce variability in using emotion regulation strategies, leading to sequential emotion intensity changes. Using five experience sampling datasets (<i>N</i> = 750, aged 11-25, 59.17% female, 25,834 observations) that repeatedly assess emotion differentiation and emotion regulation variability, we examined their interaction and impact on emotion intensity. Surprisingly, moments of heightened emotion differentiation were followed by more stable use of regulation strategies (lower variability), while moments of higher emotion regulation variability were followed by less emotion differentiation. Both heightened differentiation and regulation variability preceded contra-hedonic outcomes, such as increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions. These findings were robust across different types of emotion regulation variability (intensity or switching) and valences of emotions (positive or negative). In the short term, emotion differentiation predicts reduced regulation variability and may bring unpleasant changes in emotion intensity.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-025-00301-4.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"243-258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209115/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-05-22eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00306-z
Jessica P Lougheed, Justin Chanut, Alyssa K Truong
{"title":"The Associations between Affect and Internalizing Symptoms in the Reporting of Stressors in Daily Life.","authors":"Jessica P Lougheed, Justin Chanut, Alyssa K Truong","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00306-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00306-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stressor reactivity, the association between the experience of stressors and same-day changes in affect (Almeida et al., 2023), has been examined extensively. Much less research has examined the complementary process: the extent to which affect may influence the perception of stressors. We examined whether affect in daily life was related to the likelihood that individuals report stressors, and whether internalizing symptoms (depressive and anxious symptoms) were associated with these links. Participants (<i>N</i> = 609) were recruited from an undergraduate participant pool and reported daily on their positive and negative affect, and the types of stressors they experienced, in a 14-day daily diary design. We used multilevel survival analysis (MSA) to estimate the likelihood of reporting recurring stressors from mean levels of positive and negative affect, the previous day's positive and negative affect, internalizing symptoms (depressive and anxious symptoms), and interactions between previous day's affect and internalizing symptoms. Previous day's affect was not associated with the risk of reporting stressors. Greater negative affect at the between-person level was associated with a greater risk of all types of stressors we examined, whereas lower between-person positive affect was only associated with the risk of reporting work/school and any stressors. Depressive and anxious symptoms were related in different ways to the likelihood of reporting stressors. This study demonstrates the utility of daily diary methods in combination with MSA to examine directional associations from affect to stressors and their temporal links.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"285-295"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209166/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-05-09eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00304-1
Brian P Don, Kieren J Lilly, Chris G Sibley, Nickola C Overall, Danny Osborne
{"title":"Perceived Inequality and Wellness: Investigating the Longitudinal Links Between Relative Deprivation, Facets of Well-Being, and Self-Rated Health.","authors":"Brian P Don, Kieren J Lilly, Chris G Sibley, Nickola C Overall, Danny Osborne","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00304-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00304-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individual-based relative deprivation-feeling unfairly economically disadvantaged compared to others-fosters psychological ill-being and poorer physical health. However, research has overlooked the possibility that relative deprivation also undermines emotional <i>well-being</i>, which is distinct from ill-being and uniquely contributes to physical health. Using nine annual waves of a nationwide longitudinal panel sample of adults (<i>N</i> = 58,741-66,221), the current research utilized random intercept cross-lagged panel models to assess the between- and within-person longitudinal associations between individual-based relative deprivation and three key indicators of emotional well-being: gratitude, meaning in life, and belonging. Results indicated that individual-based relative deprivation longitudinally predicted lower gratitude, meaning in life, and belonging. Moreover, lower belonging (but not gratitude or meaning in life) mediated the longitudinal associations between greater individual-based relative deprivation and poorer physical health. These results suggest that individual-based relative deprivation undermines emotional well-being, which partially explains why relative deprivation correlates with poorer physical health.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-025-00304-1.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"308-320"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209158/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-05-06eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00303-2
Roscoe C Garner, Evan M Kleiman
{"title":"Distress Tolerance as a Moderator of Affective Forecasting Effects.","authors":"Roscoe C Garner, Evan M Kleiman","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00303-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00303-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has used real-time methods like ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine affective forecasting (predictions made regarding experience of affect and how this influences decision making, level of functioning, etc.), but has not specifically examined predictors of what determines how strongly daily forecasts of a day are associated with negative emotion experienced later in the day. The aim of this study was to examine how experience of distress tolerance would moderate daily-level affective forecasting effects. Our hypothesis stated that having poorer distress tolerance would mean that worse predictions of how good a day would be, would be more strongly associated with negative emotion later in the day. Analyses in a large sample of undergraduates (<i>N</i> = 411 drawn from a sample total sample of <i>N</i> = 675) supported this hypothesis. Future research should look to further explore distress tolerance as a moderator of affective forecasting, specifically within larger community samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"280-284"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209058/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-04-26eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00302-3
Shedrick L Garrett, Michelle Shipkova, Mitchell J Prinstein, Eva H Telzer, Kristen A Lindquist
{"title":"Positive and Negative Sentiment in Social Media Direct Messages Predicts Negative Emotion Differentiation Among Adolescents.","authors":"Shedrick L Garrett, Michelle Shipkova, Mitchell J Prinstein, Eva H Telzer, Kristen A Lindquist","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00302-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00302-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Negative emotion differentiation characterizes the ability to draw distinctions between discrete negative emotional experiences with high specificity. Negative emotion differentiation is linked to improved emotion regulation and may be a key marker of adaptive emotional functioning. The present study explores how emotional language used by adolescents in daily life relates to their ability to distinguish among discrete emotions using two linguistic measures of emotion. Adolescents (<i>N</i> = 53; 28 girls, 23 boys, 2 outside gender binary; 73.7% non-White) rated their current negative emotions (e.g., anxious, fearful, lonely) via ecological momentary assessments (EMA) three times a day for 2 weeks. They also shared 94,497 of their direct messages sent on Instagram, one of the most popular social media platforms among adolescents. From these measures, we respectively computed participants' degree of negative emotion differentiation across the 2 weeks and the positive, negative, and neutral sentiment of direct messages using a dictionary-based sentiment analysis (VADER). Results reveal that adolescents with higher negative emotion differentiation also had a greater percentage of positive and negative valenced direct messages. These findings are consistent with the notion that individuals greater in emotion differentiation experience and express a broader range of emotions in daily life.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"272-279"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209123/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00297-x
{"title":"Abstracts from the 2024 SAS Annual Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00297-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00297-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 1","pages":"50 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143594649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00294-0
{"title":"Abstracts from the 2024 SAS Annual Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00294-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00294-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 1","pages":"26 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143594648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-03-04eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00299-9
Alessia Iancarelli, Nicholas R Rypkema, Maureen Ritchey, Ajay B Satpute
{"title":"Correction: The Affective Science Network: A Fieldwide Map of over 1 Million Citations.","authors":"Alessia Iancarelli, Nicholas R Rypkema, Maureen Ritchey, Ajay B Satpute","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00299-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-025-00299-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s42761-024-00292-8.].</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"395"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209478/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00296-y
{"title":"Abstracts from the 2024 SAS Annual Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00296-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00296-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143594642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00295-z
{"title":"Abstracts from the 2024 SAS Annual Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00295-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00295-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 1","pages":"12 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143594643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}