TY - JOUR
T1 - Momentary emotion differentiation
T2 - The derivation and validation of an index to study within-person fluctuations in emotion differentiation
AU - Erbas, Yasemin
AU - Kalokerinos, Elise K.
AU - Kuppens, Peter
AU - Halem, Sjoerd van
AU - Ceulemans, Eva
N1 - The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the KU Leuven Research Council (grant GOA/15/003) and a grant from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) awarded to Eva Ceulemans (grant G074319N).Yasemin Erbas is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Elise K. Kalokerinos is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE180100352).
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Emotion differentiation refers to the tendency to label emotions in a granular way. While differentiation is an important individual difference in the context of psychological well-being, it is unknown how it fluctuates within individuals. Such a within-person measure is important, since it would allow the study of how changes in differentiation predict subsequent levels of other variables of interest. Here, we present a framework to study emotion differentiation at the within-person level by introducing a momentary emotion differentiation index. This index is directly derived from the classical emotion differentiation index, the intraclass correlation. We first give a theoretical derivation of this index. Next, using data from two experience sampling studies, we show how this new momentary index is related to other momentary indicators of well-being, and take the first steps in building its nomological network. A better understanding of within-person fluctuations in emotion differentiation will allow us to identify the causes and consequences of these fluctuations, and search for ways to teach individuals to increase their level of emotion differentiation.
AB - Emotion differentiation refers to the tendency to label emotions in a granular way. While differentiation is an important individual difference in the context of psychological well-being, it is unknown how it fluctuates within individuals. Such a within-person measure is important, since it would allow the study of how changes in differentiation predict subsequent levels of other variables of interest. Here, we present a framework to study emotion differentiation at the within-person level by introducing a momentary emotion differentiation index. This index is directly derived from the classical emotion differentiation index, the intraclass correlation. We first give a theoretical derivation of this index. Next, using data from two experience sampling studies, we show how this new momentary index is related to other momentary indicators of well-being, and take the first steps in building its nomological network. A better understanding of within-person fluctuations in emotion differentiation will allow us to identify the causes and consequences of these fluctuations, and search for ways to teach individuals to increase their level of emotion differentiation.
KW - emotion
KW - emotion differentiation
KW - momentary measure
KW - well-being
KW - within-person fluctuations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100579767&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1073191121990089
DO - 10.1177/1073191121990089
M3 - Article
SN - 1073-1911
VL - 29
SP - 700
EP - 716
JO - Assessment
JF - Assessment
IS - 4
ER -