In the Flow of Life: Capturing Affective Socializing Dynamics Using a Wearable Sensor and Intensive Daily Diaries

Zhang, Amy; Goosby, Bridget J.; Cheadle, Jacob E.

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“…Longitudinal studies have measured the association between discrimination and mental health across years (Seaton et al 2009), and daily diary studies have documented fluctuations over days and weeks (Broudy et al 2007; Douglass et al 2016; Hoggard et al 2015; Jochman et al 2019; Ong and Burrow 2017). Even more granular studies attempt to capture associations within days (Joseph et al 2020; Potter, Brondolo, and Smyth 2019; Torres and Ong 2010), with two recent studies going even further by colocating microaggressive discriminatory experiences with emotional arousal dynamically within days (Cheadle et al 2020; Jelsma, Goosby, and Cheadle 2021; see also Zhang, Goodby, and Cheadle 2021). Whether measured across years, weeks, days, or within days, a consistent finding across these studies is that racism-related exposures can increase negative emotions and physiological patterns consistent with the “stress response.”…”

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A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics

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Discrimination-health research has been critiqued for neglecting the endogeneity of reports of discrimination to negative affect and the multidimensionality of mental health. To address these challenges, we model discrimination’s relationship to multiple psychological variables without directional constraints. Using time-dense data to identify associational network structures allows for joint testing of the social stress hypothesis, prominent in discrimination-health literature, and the negativity bias hypothesis, an endogeneity critique rooted in social psychology. Our results show discrimination predicts negative emotions from day-to-day but not vice versa, indicating that racial discrimination is a risk factor and not symptom of negative emotion. Furthermore, we identify sadness, guilt, hostility, and fear as a locus of interrelated emotions sensitive to racism-related stressors that emerges over time. Thus, we find support for what race scholars have argued for 120+ years in a model without a priori directional restrictions and then build on this work by empirically identifying cascading mental health consequences of discrimination.

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A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics

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The Immune System Is a Complex System: Inflammatory Morbidity and Systemic Racism

Goosby,

Cheadle

2024

Köln Z Soziol

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This article examines the relationship between social inequity and the immune system, emphasizing some of the many ways that systemic racism and other forms of marginalization can undermine health. Of much sociological concern, chronic stressors increase inflammation and consequent susceptibility to health morbidities and, ultimately, mortality by burdening marginalized group members in ways that adversely affect immune regulation and functioning. As with social systems more generally, the immune system is a cross-scale complex system of many regulating, coordinating, and interacting parts, within both itself and the other bodily systems it protects. Along these lines, we thus propose that to properly conceptualize how social conditions undermine immune functioning and health, it is important to consider the immune system beyond its component mechanisms and parts. This view is akin to the way critical race theory proposes that “systemic racism” in the United States is a collaborative arrangement of social structures whose explanatory richness and historical durability can only be fully understood as a gestalt. We therefore seek, where possible, to emphasize the systems nature of the immune system similarly to the sociological insight that society comprises complex systems whose interrelated structures interact in dynamic and sometimes unpredictable ways. We scaffold this discussion within the literature on systemic racism in the United States, emphasizing inflammation as a key marker of immune demand and dysregulation and highlighting some implications for health inequities among marginalized populations more generally.

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Sympathetic arousal among depressed college students: Examining the interplay between psychopathology and social activity

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Depressed individuals exhibit altered sensitivity to both positive and negative social contact, and may not reap the same psychological and emotional benefits to socializing as non‐depressed individuals. Although depressive symptoms and loneliness predict social withdrawal and decreased pleasure, little is currently understood about immediate affective arousal dynamics during real‐time socializing. Using a novel ambulatory protocol that tracked both objective features of affective arousal (electrodermal activity) and subjective valence (self‐reported) during college students' social interactions, we evaluated the moderating role of depression and loneliness symptoms on the associations between socializing with others (specifically, with a romantic partner, a close friend, or a group of friends) and the arousal and valence dimensions of affect. Among a racially and ethnically diverse sample of 118 college students (64% African American/Black/Continental African, 20% Latinx, 8% Asian, and 8% White) recruited from a large, predominantly White Midwestern university, those lower in depression and loneliness symptomatology evinced decreased average arousal (Β = −0.10, SE = 0.04, p < .01) when in relaxed and intimate socializing contexts (e.g., with a romantic partner and a close friend), consistent with the idea that these contexts facilitate important opportunities for psychological rest and recovery. Those lower in depression and loneliness symptoms also showed higher average arousal when socializing in the energizing context of being with a group of friends. Overall, the results suggest psychopathology is reflected in patterns of sympathetic arousal when socializing, with more depressed and lonely individuals generally feeling worse while receiving fewer psychophysiological rewards in multiple socializing contexts.

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In the Flow of Life: Capturing Affective Socializing Dynamics Using a Wearable Sensor and Intensive Daily Diaries

Cited by 3 publications

References 75 publications

A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics

A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics

The Immune System Is a Complex System: Inflammatory Morbidity and Systemic Racism

Sympathetic arousal among depressed college students: Examining the interplay between psychopathology and social activity

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