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ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2020

Reduced positive affect on days with stress exposure predicts depression, anxiety disorders, and low trait positive affect 7 years later.

Gavin N Rackoff, Michelle G Newman

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Article in Journal of abnormal psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Examining the impact of total sleep duration on daily affect among short-sleeping adolescents: an experimental study.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2026
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  4. Positive affect as a developmental mediator of early adversity and internalizing psychopathology.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gavin N RackoffDepartment of Psychology.ORCID 0000-0003-3525-3975
Michelle G NewmanDepartment of Psychology.ORCID 0000-0003-0873-1409
Pennsylvania State University · US

Funding

U19 MIDlife in the United States-Diversity Supplement-WellsU19AG051426 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI CAROL D. RYFF · 2016 to 2026
$74.8M
STATISTICS COREP01AG020166 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI RYFF, CAROL D. · 2002 to 2015
$50.6M
Harnessing Mobile Technology to Reduce Mental Health Disorders in College PopulationsR01MH115128 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI EISENBERG, DANIEL, NEWMAN, MICHELLE G · 2018 to 2022
$4.1M
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Research Network and National Institute on AgingNIA NIH HHS P01 AG020166NIA NIH HHS U19 AG051426NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH115128
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Positive emotions serve important functions for mental health. Susceptibility to reduced positive emotions in the context of stress may increase risk for poor mental health outcomes, including anxiety and depressive disorders and low overall levels of positive emotion. In an 8-day daily diary study within a larger panel study (

Indexed as

Facial ExpressionAdultAffectAgedAnxiety DisordersFemaleHumansMajor Depressive DisorderMaleMental HealthMiddle AgedProspective StudiesStress, Psychological

Identifiers

PMID32914995
PMCPMC8048702
OpenAlexW3085916964

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