Complex affect dynamics add limited information to the prediction of psychological well-being
Complex affect dynamics add limited information to the prediction of psychological well-being
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DOI：
10.1038/s41562-019-0555-0
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
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29.9
通讯作者：
Tuerlinckx, Francis
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作者：
Dejonckheere, Egon;Mestdagh, Merijn;Tuerlinckx, Francis
多年来，许多研究已经证明了情绪动态和心理健康之间的关系（1）。因为我们的情感生活本质上是时间动态的（2 - 6），情感科学家认为，除了我们平均感受到的积极或消极程度之外，情绪变化的模式对心理健康也是有益的（7 - 10）。这种日益增长的兴趣引发了新的情感动态测量方法的激增，每种方法都声称捕捉了我们情感生活中独特的动态方面，这对理解幸福至关重要。虽然这种积累表明科学的进步，研究人员并不总是评估（a）如何不同的影响动态措施的经验相互关联和（B）他们的附加值是在预测心理健康。在这里，我们通过分析来自15项研究（n = 1，777）的情感时间序列数据来解决这些问题。我们发现，（a）措施之间存在相当大的相互依赖关系，表明单一的动态往往不传达独特的信息，（B）动态措施几乎没有附加值的平均水平的积极和消极的影响（和这些情感状态的方差）时，预测个体差异的幸福感的三个指标（生活满意度，抑郁症状和边缘症状）。我们的研究结果表明，传统的情绪研究目前无法证明独立的影响动态和心理健康之间的关系。
Over the years, many studies have demonstrated a relation between emotion dynamics and psychological well-being(1). Because our emotional life is inherently time-dynamic(2-6), affective scientists argue that, next to how positive or negative we feel on average, patterns of emotional change are informative for mental health(7-10). This growing interest initiated a surge in new affect dynamic measures, each claiming to capture a unique dynamical aspect of our emotional life, crucial for understanding well-being. Although this accumulation suggests scientific progress, researchers have not always evaluated (a) how different affect dynamic measures empirically interrelate and (b) what their added value is in the prediction of psychological well-being. Here, we address these questions by analysing affective time series data from 15 studies (n = 1,777). We show that (a) considerable interdependencies between measures exist, suggesting that single dynamics often do not convey unique information, and (b) dynamic measures have little added value over mean levels of positive and negative affect (and variance in these affective states) when predicting individual differences in three indicators of well-being (life satisfaction, depressive symptoms and borderline symptoms). Our findings indicate that conventional emotion research is currently unable to demonstrate independent relations between affect dynamics and psychological well-being.