Personality and Daily Experience: The Promise and the Challenge

Tennen, Howard; Suls, Jerry; Affleck, Glenn

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1991.tb02387.x

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“…That is, personality is taken as relevant to process only as a predictor of process, whereas nonpersonality variables are recruited to constitute the process itself (Tennen, Suls, & Affleck, 1991). In contrast, straightforwardly translating the correlation to one that is characteristic of within-person variation would mean that each individual changes in extraversion rapidly (e.g., hour to hour) and that positive affect changes within that individual in step.…”

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An intraindividual process approach to the relationship between extraversion and positive affect: Is acting extraverted as "good" as being extraverted?

Fleeson

Malanos

Achille

2002

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

358

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This article investigates whether rapid variation within a person in extraversion is associated with positive affect variation in that person. In Study 1, participants reported their extraversion and positive affect every 3 hr for 2 weeks. Each participant was happier when acting extraverted than when acting introverted. Study 2Јs diary methodology replicated the relationship for weekly variations in positive affect. Study 3's experimental methodology replicated the relationship when extraversion was manipulated within a fixed situation. Thus, the relationship between extraversion and positive affect, previously demonstrated between persons, also characterizes the internal, ongoing psychological functioning of individuals and is likely to be explained by something capable of rapid intraindividual variation. Furthermore, traits and states are at least somewhat isomorphic, and acting extraverted may increase well-being.

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An intraindividual process approach to the relationship between extraversion and positive affect: Is acting extraverted as "good" as being extraverted?

Fleeson

Malanos

Achille

2002

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

358

387

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“…Although eight days is not long, intraclass correlations (the proportion of intra-individual variability to total variability) was 0.54 for negative affect and 0.45 for somatic symptoms, suggesting that the number of days provides enough intra-individual variability to capture within-person processes. Nightly interviews risk the possibility that engaging in self-monitoring may alter the normal fluctuations of daily experience, but this risk is less than that posed by studies asking for multiple interviews throughout the day (see discussion by Tennen, Suls & Affleck, 1991). For a further description of the NSDE, see Almeida, Wethington & Kessler (2002).…”

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Daily reports of symptoms and negative affect: Not all symptoms are the same

Charles

Almeida

2006

Psychology & Health

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The interplay between state negative affect (SNA) and somatic symptoms is well-established in daily life, but the nature of the association is unclear. Questions remain regarding the role, if any, that SNA plays apart from trait negative affect (TNA), the direction of the association, and whether the relationship with SNA varies according to symptom type. Associations between three constellations of somatic symptoms and SNA were examined in adults (N ¼ 781) queried on eight consecutive evenings. Inter-and intra-individual variation in temporal and concurrent associations were examined, with models including both state and trait negative affect. All symptoms were related to concurrent measures of SNA. Lagged associations varied by symptom type. No lagged analyses including respiratory symptoms were significant. Prior pain symptoms predicted SNA, and prior SNA predicted pain and gastrointestinal symptoms. TNA, however, mediated the association between prior pain symptoms and SNA.

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“…communication about sex in an important way. Recently, other investigators engaged in the monitoring of daily events have emphasized the potential intrusiveness of daily behavioral monitoring and how it may confound the dependent variables to be measured (e.g., Tennen, Suls, & Affleck, 1991). The current study suggests that the use of comprehensive structured retrospective questionnaires may be preferable to the use of a daily monitoring form, especially since the time effects we observed suggest a diminishing willingness or ability of subjects to fill out a daily sexual behavior monitoring form.…”

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The effects of exposure to different sources of sexual information on sexual behavior: Comparing a “sex-expert system” to other educational material

Ochs

Meana

Mah

et al. 1993

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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Sexpert, an expert computer program designed to counsel couples on their sexual relationships, was evaluated. Eighty-one heterosexual couples were assigned to one of three experimental manipulations (Sexpert, video, and self-help book) or a control condition. Daily sexual behavior monitoring forms and structured retrospective reports served as measures of baseline and postmanipulation behavior. Daily monitoring of sexual behavior failed to show significant changes occurring after the manipulations. However, retrospective data concerning the postmanipulation period show that compared with the control, the Sexpert, video, and book manipulations had a significant positive impact on couples' sexual behavior, communication, and learning about sexuality. Sexpert, video, and book were similarly evaluated, except that Sexpert was evaluated as more engaging. In addition, subjects retrospectively reported positive changes in communication, relationship satisfaction, and sexual behavior during the baseline period. This suggests that daily behavioral monitoring is intrusive and may confound the variables measured by it.

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Personality and Daily Experience: The Promise and the Challenge

Cited by 95 publications

References 57 publications

An intraindividual process approach to the relationship between extraversion and positive affect: Is acting extraverted as "good" as being extraverted?

An intraindividual process approach to the relationship between extraversion and positive affect: Is acting extraverted as "good" as being extraverted?

Daily reports of symptoms and negative affect: Not all symptoms are the same

The effects of exposure to different sources of sexual information on sexual behavior: Comparing a “sex-expert system” to other educational material

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