ArticleJournal of psychosomatic research2019
Affect variability and sleep: Emotional ups and downs are related to a poorer night's rest.
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- Monitoring Daily Sleep, Mood, and Affect Using Digital Technologies and Wearables: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- The impact of emotional management ability on sleep quality of university students: chain mediation of physical exercise and electronic health literacy.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Mean Affect Moderates the Association between Affect Variability and Mental Health.Affective science · 2024Article
- Purpose in Daily Life: Considering Within-Person Sense of Purpose Variability.Journal of research in personality · 2024Article
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- Chronotype and the Big-Five personality traits as predictors of chronic fatigue among patients with sarcoidosis. A cross-sectional study.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2023Article
- Sleep Quality Moderates the Relationship Between Daily Mean Levels and Variability of Positive Affect.Affective science · 2023Article
- Sleep in everyday life - relationship to mood and performance in young and older adults: a study protocol.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Television Viewing, Physical Activity, and Loneliness in Late Life.The Gerontologist · 2022Article
- Associations Between Intraindividual Variability in Sleep and Daily Positive Affect.Affective science · 2022Article
- Mean Levels and Variability in Psychological Well-Being and Associations With Sleep in Midlife and Older Women.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
- Sleep duration and affective reactivity to stressors and positive events in daily life.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Article
- Association of Positive Affect Instability With All-Cause Mortality in Older Adults in England.JAMA network open · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesMany studies have documented the strong associations between well-being and mean levels of both positive and negative affect. A growing number of studies are examining how fluctuations in daily reported emotional experience, known as affect variability, is related to health outcomes. Sleep is a critical correlate of healthy in functioning in late life. This study examines associations between positive and negative affect variability and facets of self-reported sleep behavior among older adults.
methodsParticipants (N = 277) completed a 5 to 6 day ecological momentary assessment. The first survey upon waking asked participants about their sleep the previous night, and participants rated their positive and negative affect every three subsequent hours during waking hours.
resultsRegression models indicate that greater variability in daily positive affect is associated with fewer hours of sleep (b = -0.648, p = .04) and greater morning tiredness (b = 0.67, p = .006) even after adjusting for mean levels of affect. Although greater negative affect variability is associated with worse sleep quality (b = -0.77, p = .02) and greater morning tiredness (b = 0.91, p = .004), these associations are no longer significant once mean negative affect is added into the model.
conclusionFindings support theory describing the downside in the variability of positive affect, and suggest that fluctuations in positive affect are related to poor sleep outcomes that have implications for overall health and well-being.
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