A5061552324- Mental Health Research Topics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Mental Health via Writing
- Mind wandering and attention
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
The University of Melbourne
2019-2025
Australian Psychological Society
2019-2024
University of Newcastle Australia
2018-2020
KU Leuven
2015-2019
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2019
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2019
Freie Universität Berlin
2019
Newcastle University
2018
The University of Queensland
2012-2014
Emotion differentiation, which involves experiencing and labeling emotions in a granular way, has been linked with well-being. It theorized that differentiating between facilitates effective emotion regulation, but this link yet to be comprehensively tested. In two experience-sampling studies, we examined how negative differentiation was related (a) the selection of emotion-regulation strategies (b) effectiveness these downregulating ( Ns = 200 101 participants 34,660 6,282 measurements,...
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Recent theory conceptualizes emotion regulation as occurring across three stages: (a) identifying the need to regulate, (b) selecting a strategy, and (c) implementing that strategy modify emotions. Yet, measurement of has not kept pace with these theoretical advances. In particular, widely used global self-report questionnaires are often assumed index people's typical selection tendencies. However, it is unclear how well self-reports capture individual differences in and/or whether they may...
Stereotype threat, or the belief that one may be target of demeaning stereotypes, leads to acute performance decrements and reduced psychological well-being. The current research examined stereotype threat among older employees, a group is many negative stereotypes. Study 1 surveyed workers in two different organizations regarding their experiences job attitudes work mental health, intentions resign retire. Across both samples, feelings were related more poorer health. In turn, these...
Abstract As in many areas of psychological inquiry, context matters for how emotion is experienced, expressed, perceived, and regulated. While this may sound like a truism, research does not always directly theorize, manipulate, or measure with mind. To facilitate process, we present framework contextual features that shape emotion‐related processes, highlight several key factors have been shown to matter research. We make four recommendations which believe will help better integrate...
The emotion regulation literature is growing exponentially, but there limited understanding of the comparative strengths strategies in downregulating positive emotional experiences. present research made first systematic investigation examining consequences using expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal to downregulate negative within a single design. Two experiments with over 1,300 participants demonstrated that successfully reduced experience affect compared control conditions....
Emotion differentiation, the ability to make fine-grained distinctions between emotional states, has mainly been studied as a trait. In this research, we examine within-person fluctuations in emotion differentiation and hypothesize that stress is central factor predicting these fluctuations. We predict experiencing will result lower levels of differentiation. Using data from 3-wave longitudinal experience sampling study, examined level across days months tested if related changes levels. On...
Neuroticism is one of the major traits describing human personality, and a predictor mental physical disorders with profound public health significance. Individual differences in emotional variability are thought to reflect core neuroticism. However, empirical relation between neuroticism may be partially result measurement artifact reflecting neuroticism’s higher mean levels—rather than greater variability—of negative emotion. When intensity measured using bounded scales, there dependency...
Both older and younger employees experience age-based stereotype threat in the workplace, but only appear to be vulnerable disengagement as a consequence. The present study examines 2 mechanisms that might explain this age difference: (a) stress appraisals of challenge hindrance (b) rumination. Using weekly diary design over 5 weeks, 280 across life span (aged between 18 66 years), completed 1,288 surveys. Work outcomes examined were job satisfaction, engagement, affective organizational...
People who express positive emotion usually have better social outcomes than people do not, and suppressing the expression of emotions can interpersonal costs. Nevertheless, convention suggests that there are situations in which should suppress emotions, such as when trying to appear humble victory. The present research tested whether costs expressing winning. In Experiment 1, inexpressive winners were evaluated more positively rated lower hubristic-but not authentic-pride compared with...
Abstract Stereotypes about different groups persist in organizations. Employees from such may experience stereotype threat , or the concern that they are being judged on basis of demeaning stereotypes to which belong. The goal this focal article is discuss whether a useful construct for organizational psychology research and practice. To end, we focus consequences other than acute performance deficits laboratory settings. In particular, examine studies highlight effects intrapersonal...
Time is given a central place in theoretical models of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998, 2015), but key questions regarding the role time remain unanswered. We investigated 2 such unanswered questions. First, we explored when different strategies were used within course an emotional episode daily life. Second, association between temporal deployment and negative experience. conducted diary study which participants (N = 74) drew intensity profile depicting unfolding their experience across...
People regulate their emotions not only for hedonic reasons but also instrumental reasons, to attain the potential benefits of beyond pleasure and pain. However, such motives have rarely been examined outside laboratory as they naturally unfold in daily life. To assess whether how operate laboratory, it is necessary examine them response real personally relevant stimuli ecologically valid contexts. In this research, we assessed frequency, consistency, predictors negative emotion regulation...
Although selecting emotion regulation strategies constitutes means to achieve goals (i.e., desired emotional states), strategy selection and have been studied independently. We propose that the people select are often dictated by what they want feel. tested possibility involves choosing match goals. expected who motivated decrease intensity tailored for decreasing emotions (e.g., distraction), whereas those increase increasing rumination). this pattern be evident both in lab everyday life....
It is generally considered socially undesirable to suppress the expression of positive emotion. However, previous research has not role that social context plays in governing appropriate emotion regulation. We investigated a which it may be more than express emotion, hypothesizing expressions would inappropriate when valence expressed (i.e., positive) did match negative). Six experiments (N = 1,621) supported this hypothesis: there was emotion-context mismatch, participants rated targets who...
Can we experience positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) separately (i.e., affective independence), or do these emotional states represent the mutually exclusive ends of a single bipolar continuum bipolarity)?Building on previous emotion theories, propose that relation between PA NA is not invariable, but rather fluctuates in response to changing situational demands.Specifically, argue our system shifts from relative independence stronger bipolarity when encounter events situations activate...
Recent work suggests that what is harmful about secrecy not active concealment within social interactions but rather mind wandering to a secret outside of contexts. However, it yet clear predicts and concealing secrets. We proposed emotional appraisals shame guilt for would predict how experienced. Four studies with 1,000 participants keeping more than 6,000 secrets demonstrated was linked increased the secret. Guilt, in contrast, reduced The current represents first test emotions from...
Emotion differentiation refers to the tendency label emotions in a granular way. While is an important individual difference context of psychological well-being, it unknown how fluctuates within individuals. Such within-person measure important, since would allow study changes predict subsequent levels other variables interest. Here, we present framework emotion at level by introducing momentary index. This index directly derived from classical index, intraclass correlation. We first give...
Abstract The growing literature on interpersonal emotion regulation has largely focused the strategies people use to regulate. As such, researchers have little understanding of how often regulate in first place, what goals they when regulate, and much effort invest regulation. To better characterize features process, we conducted two studies using daily diary ( N = 171) experience sampling methods 239), exploring context everyday social interactions. We found regulated others’ emotions...
The body image field aims to cultivate positive image. To do so, it must appreciate factors contributing Sexual desirability is one such factor. Using experience sampling data from Australian Grindr users, we aimed quantify the overlap between sexual and satisfaction. We found satisfaction correlated strongly between- (r = .90) within-persons (rMedian =.60). dynamic structural equation modeling, analyzed 238 participants' (T 9058), finding that were bidirectionally related – previous...
The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) is increasingly used by researchers from various disciplines to answer novel questions about individuals’ daily lives. Measurement best practices have long been overlooked in ESM research, and recent reviews show that item quality often not reported studies. absence of information may partly be explained the lack consensus on how should evaluated. As part Item Repository project (esmitemrepository.com) — an international open science initiative collects...