Mastronardi Carli, Smail-Crevier Rachel, Shih Josephine H, Rappaport Lance M
Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada.
Department of Psychology, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Cogn Emot. 2025 Jul 4:1-18. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2525481.
Emotion dynamics, which describe affective patterns over time, may illustrate how specific emotion regulation difficulties manifest in daily life. However, limited research links emotion regulation with emotion dynamics assessed naturalistically. In two samples, 62 and 304 university students completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale then completed ecological momentary assessments of positive and negative affect thrice daily for seven and 14 days, respectively, to examine mean positive and negative affect, affective variability, affective instability, and emotional inertia. Self-reported emotion regulation difficulties broadly correlated with elevated mean negative affect and lower positive affect. However, no specific association of an emotion regulation difficulty with affective variability, instability, or inertia replicated across samples. Further research is needed with diverse methodologies to explore how in situ emotion dynamics reflect emotion regulation difficulties.
情绪动态变化描述了一段时间内的情感模式,它或许可以说明特定的情绪调节困难在日常生活中是如何表现出来的。然而,将情绪调节与自然主义评估的情绪动态变化联系起来的研究有限。在两个样本中,分别有62名和304名大学生完成了情绪调节困难量表,然后分别在7天和14天内每天三次对积极和消极情绪进行生态瞬时评估,以检验平均积极和消极情绪、情感变异性、情感不稳定性和情绪惯性。自我报告的情绪调节困难与较高的平均消极情绪和较低的积极情绪广泛相关。然而,在不同样本中,情绪调节困难与情感变异性、不稳定性或惯性之间没有具体的关联重复出现。需要用不同的方法进行进一步研究,以探索现场情绪动态变化如何反映情绪调节困难。