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SynthesisEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2025

Unpacking the components of positive affect variability: Implications for psychological health across contexts.

David J Disabato, Emily A Gawlik, Pallavi Aurora, Karin G Coifman

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Synthesis in Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David J DisabatoDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University.ORCID 0000-0001-7094-4996
Emily A GawlikDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University.
Pallavi AuroraDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University.
Karin G CoifmanDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University.

Funding

Unpacking Emotion Inflexibility and Prospective Prediction of Affective DiseaseR01MH113622 · NIMH · KENT STATE UNIVERSITY · PI COIFMAN, KARIN GALIAH · 2018 to 2022
$3.1M
National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Mental HealthNIMH NIH HHS R01 MH113622
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior research suggests variability of positive affect (PA), or the degree to which an individual's experience of PA is variable rather than stable, is associated with worse psychological health. However, it is unclear whether different aspects of PA variability serve different psychological functions. One possibility is that changes in PA in response to rewarding contexts, or PA reactivity, serve a healthy function, while general instability of PA from one moment to the next serves an unhealthy function. The current investigation separated out PA reactivity to pleasant activities from general PA instability. We tested associations in three experience-sampling studies collected between 2012 and 2020 (

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AffectEmotional RegulationMental HealthAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRewardYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID39325392
PMCPMC12107249

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