Emodiversity, health, and well-being in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) daily diary study.

Urban-Wojcik, Emily; Mumford, Jeanette A.; Almeida, David M.; Lachman, Margie E.; Ryff, Carol D.; Davidson, Richard J.; Schaefer, Stacey M.

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“…In contrast, the ER diversity index captures individual differences in ER repertoire using one index that is readily computed using the formula presented and thus may have broader accessibility and utility for researchers. Our findings also parallel the findings of a study that examined the diversity in emotional experiences using the emodiversity index (Quoidbach et al, 2014), in which higher positive emodiversity and lower negative emodiversity were associated with fewer depressive symptoms (Urban-Wojcik et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 85%

Emotion Regulation Diversity in Current and Remitted Depression

Wen

Quigley

Yoon

et al. 2021

Clinical Psychological Science

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Depression is associated with reduced flexibility in emotion regulation (ER). Diversity in the use of ER strategies is crucial for ER flexibility. In this study, we examined associations between depression and ER diversity and proposed a novel measure: the ER diversity index. Currently depressed ( n = 58), remitted depressed ( n = 65), and healthy control participants ( n = 55) rated their use of nine ER strategies. Four ER measures were computed (diversity index, sum score, flexibility score, intraindividual standard deviation), and their association with diagnostic group was compared. The ER diversity index was associated with depression status more strongly than all other ER measures. Currently and remitted depressed individuals exhibited greater diversity in ER strategies overall and maladaptive ER strategies but less diversity in adaptive ER strategies compared with healthy individuals. Thus, the ER diversity index may be a valid measure of ER diversity, and ER diversity may have an important role in depression.

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confidence: 85%

Emotion Regulation Diversity in Current and Remitted Depression

Wen

Quigley

Yoon

et al. 2021

Clinical Psychological Science

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“…Our findings showed that positive and negative emodiversity were associated with distinct effects. It partly corroborates past studies showing the validity of positively and negatively valenced emodiversity indices (Ong et al., 2018; Urban‐Wojcik et al., 2020). Some studies have used global emodiversity metrics, accounting for the diversity of emotional experiences regardless of valence.…”

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confidence: 90%

Variety is the spice of life: How emotional diversity is associated with better student engagement and achievement

King

Frondozo

2021

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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Background. Past studies on emotions have mostly focused on mean levels of positive and negative emotions. In recent years, the concept of emotional diversity (emodiversity) which refers to the variety and relative abundance of emotions was introduced and was found to have important implications for mental and physical health. However, its role in the educational context is unexplored.Aims. The current study aimed to examine how emodiversity is associated with indicators of optimal school functioning including engagement and achievement. Sample(s).Four hundred four Filipino high school students (M = 14.34, SD = 1.47; 55% female) and 10 class teachers participated in the study.Methods. Students completed surveys measuring their emotions, emodiversity, and engagement, while class teachers rated their students' engagement. Finally, grades from the school were obtained at the end of the semester.Results. Positive emodiversity-diversity of positive emotional experiences-was an independent predictor of academic engagement and school achievement over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotions. These results were found to generalize to self-reported and teacher-reported outcomes as well as more objective measures of achievement. Moreover, findings remained robust after controlling for demographic variables such as gender and year level.Conclusions. Positive emodiversity is associated with higher engagement and achievement suggesting the importance of emodiversity in the educational context.There is a growing recognition that emotions are essential aspects of students' lives. Positive and negative emotions generate a distinct collection of thoughts and actions that lead to psychological, behavioural, and cognitive outcomes . Within the educational context, positive emotions are recognized as powerful predictors of optimal learning and achievement (

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“…This means that the threshold for individuals with a history of emotional abuse to experience negative emotions may be lower. Higher negative affect emodiversity has also been implicated in depression and anxiety (Urban-Wojcik et al, 2022;Werner-Seidler et al, 2020). There have been some controversies about the measurement of emodiversity and its associations with mental health functioning (Brown & Coyne, 2017), which we discuss in the limitations section.…”

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Specific types of childhood abuse and neglect and profiles of adult emotion dynamics

Myroniuk¹,

Reitsema²,

Jonge³

et al. 2022

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Childhood maltreatment (CM) is experienced by ~40% of all children at major personal and societal costs. Studies show adverse consequences of CM on emotional functioning and regulation. This article focuses on differential imprint of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and/or neglect exteriences during childhood on emotional functionin later in life To study this, we calculated how intense, variable, unstable, inert, and diverse the daily emotions were of 290 Dutch adults (aged 19-73, measured thrice daily during 30 days (90 measurements per person, for five emotion dynamic indices). Participants described abuse/neglect retrospectively using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). In our structural equation model (SEM), only physical abuse was unrelated to all five emotion dynamic indices. Abuse and neglect showed specific patterns, e.g., emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and physical neglect associated mostly with negative emotions, and emotional neglect predominantly with positive emotion dynamics. CM types were associated differentialy with low versus high arousal emotion dynamics (i.e sexual abuse associated with increased and emotional neglect with reduced emotion dynamics). Dissecting CM effects on adult emotion dynamics may inform theories on the ontogenesis and functioning of emotions, theories on abuse and neglect and the prevention of their developmental sequalia, and help to identify and understand well-adjusted and (dys-)functional emotional development.

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Emodiversity, health, and well-being in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) daily diary study.

Cited by 31 publications

References 29 publications

Emotion Regulation Diversity in Current and Remitted Depression

Emotion Regulation Diversity in Current and Remitted Depression

Variety is the spice of life: How emotional diversity is associated with better student engagement and achievement

Specific types of childhood abuse and neglect and profiles of adult emotion dynamics

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