Behavioral activation and inhibition in everyday life.

Abstract

Joint effects of daily events and dispositional sensitivities to cues of reward and punishment on daily positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) were examined in 3 diary studies. Study 1 showed that positive events were strongly related to PA but not NA, whereas negative events were strongly related to NA but not PA. Studies 2 and 3 examined how the dispositional sensitivities of independent appetitive and aversive motivational systems, the Behavioral Activation System (BAS) and the Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS), moderated these relationships. Participants in Study 2 with higher BAS sensitivity reported more PA on average; those with more sensitive BIS reported more NA. Also, BIS moderated reactions to negative events, such that higher BIS sensitivity magnified reactions to negative events. Study 3 replicated these findings and showed that BAS predisposed people to experience more positive events. Results demonstrate the value of distinguishing within-person and between-person effects to clarify the functionally independent processes by which dispositional sensitivities influence affect.

"Did you have a nice evening?" A day-level study on recovery experiences, sleep, and affect.

“…We propose that these recovery experiences are related to subsequent affective states. As negative versus positive events and experiences are differentially associated with negative versus positive affect (Gable et al, 2000;Watson, 1988), we propose that a lack of psychological detachment from work (a negative experience) is related to negative activation and fatigue, and that relaxation and mastery (positive experiences) are related to positive activation and serenity. Affective reactions to recovery experiences may be immediate but will also persist over some time.…”

“…Specifically, Gable, Reis, and Elliot (2000) argued that positive events are related to positive affect, whereas negative events are related to negative affect.…”

Computerized experience sampling method (ESMc): Assessing feasibility and validity among individuals with schizophrenia

“…This method is more appropriate than conventional unilevel analyses for analyzing nested data (Schwartz and Stone, 1998). Multilevel modeling techniques are a variant of unilevel regression analyses (Hox, 2000), and they are standard for the analysis of ESM data (Gable et al, 2000). The multilevel data analyses were conducted using SAS software for Windows (version 9).…”

Influence of aversive visual stimulation on attention, working memory, and anxiety in university students

“…Anxiety is known to play an important role in the functions of memory, learning, decision-making, and creativity (Compton, 2003;Damasio, 1999;Davis & Whalen, 2001;Dolan, 2002;Loewenstein & Lerner, 2003). Mental function performance is directly linked to the different levels of anxiety experienced and the strategies adopted by each individual to deal with this function (Gable, Reis, & Elliot, 2000;Leen-Feldner et al, 2007;Sloan & Kornstein, 2003;Updegraff, Gable, & Taylor, 2004). Aversive stimulation in the induction of humor (Gilet 2008) can be generated by visual material, such as a movie containing scenes of urban violence.…”