Emotion dynamics in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic and descriptive review.
We examined age-graded differences in emotional intensity, variability, instability, inertia, differentiation, and augmentation/blunting. Outcomes included positive versus negative affect scales, discrete emotions (anger, sadness, anxiety, and happiness), and we compared samples of youth with or without mental or physiological problems. Multilevel models showed more variable positive affect and sadness in adolescents compared with children, and more intense negative affect. Our additional descriptive review suggests a decrease in instability of positive and negative emotions from early to late adolescence. Mental health pr...
Source: Emotion - November 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The goods in everyday love: Positivity resonance builds prosociality.
Discussion centers on theoretical and practical implications as well as directions for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Emotion)
Source: Emotion - November 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
When a lack of passion intertwines with thought and action: Neutral feelings about COVID-19 are associated with U.S. presidential candidate attitudes and voting behavior.
We examined whether feeling neutral about COVID-19 was associated with attitudes about the top 2 presidential candidates (Trump vs. Biden) and behavior (i.e., whether a person voted and who they voted for). Data were collected at 2 critical time points: Study 1 was conducted immediately after the U.S. presidential election and Study 2 was conducted prior to the second Senate impeachment trial of Trump. Because feeling neutral about COVID-19 might indicate that a person views the issue as unworthy of attention, a perspective more aligned with Trump’s approach, we hypothesized that feeling neutral about COVID-19 would be a...
Source: Emotion - November 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
You do it to yourself: Attentional capture by threat-signaling stimuli persists even when entirely counterproductive.
Recent research has demonstrated a counterproductive attentional bias toward threat-related stimuli: under conditions in which fixating on a color distractor stimulus sometimes resulted in an immediate shock, participants were nevertheless more likely to look at this threat-related distractor than a neutral distractor matched for physical salience. However, participants in that prior research may not have realized that their own actions caused delivery of aversive outcomes, such that monitoring for the threat-related distractor may not have been counterproductive from participants’ perspective. In Experiment 1 of the cur...
Source: Emotion - November 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Emotion regulation and psychological and physical health during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.
The current research tests the links between emotion regulation and psychological and physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Study 1, parents (N = 365) who had reported on their psychological and physical health prior to the pandemic completed the same health assessments along with their use of emotion regulation strategies when confined in the home with their school-aged children during a nationwide lockdown. In Study 2, individuals (N = 1,607) from a nationally representative panel study completed similar measures of psychological and physical health and use of emotion regulation strategies one-year prior to th...
Source: Emotion - November 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
