Do others really know us better? Predicting migraine activity from self- and other-ratings of negative emotion

Childhood adversities experienced by working-age migraine patients

“…We have to admit that the use of self-reported adversity as a predictor of health status has some problems. For example, other-reported negative emotions have been found to correlate with migraine activity better than do self-reported negative emotions, both cross-sectionally and prospectively [15]. Our results might thus have been more prominent if we had had the opportunity to use other-reported adversities.…”

Anger as driving factor of moral courage in comparison with guilt and global mood: A multimethod approach

“…Other‐ratings can help to overcome these limitations. They were found to have a better prognostic validity than self‐reports in some cases (e.g., Lumley et al, ). As studies on surprise suggest, a moderate link between the experience and expression of emotion can be assumed (Reisenzein, Bördgen, Holtbernd, & Matz, ).…”

Correlates of Age at Initial Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Exercise, ASA & Emotional Distress

“…To date, studies of emotional distress and quality-of-life in CLL have used only self-report measures. Because of the obfuscating impact of denial/minimization, several investigators have demonstrated superior cross-sectional and prospective predictive power of significant other ratings of emotional distress in several medical populations [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Social Isolation/Alienation [20], Sleep Quality [21] and Exercise [22,23] are known correlates of ED and thus may be of interest.…”