Situational perception and affect: Barking up the wrong tree?

Inside the Happy Personality: Personality States, Situation Experience, and State Affect Mediate the Relation Between Personality and Affect

“…Therefore, by means of these evaluations, situations should also be related to state affect. Consistent with this notion, Horstmann and Ziegler (2019) analyzed associations between the Situational Eight DIAMONDS and state affect. They found that Duty and pOsitivity were positively related to state positive affect, that Duty and Sociality were negatively related to state negative affect, and that Adversity and Negativity were positively related to state negative affect.…”

“…Situations provide circumstances that can be relevant to reaching goals, fulfilling needs, and many more (Horstmann & Ziegler, 2019;Parrigon, Woo, & Tay, 2017). Therefore, by means of these evaluations, situations should also be related to state affect.…”

Happy Like a Fish in Water? The Role of Personality–Situation Fit for Momentary Happiness in Social Interactions across the Adult Lifespan

“…There are many ways to define a (social) situation (Rauthmann et al, ), including the type of interaction partner (Chui, Hoppmann, Gerstorf, Walker, & Luszcz, ; Vogel, Ram, Conroy, Pincus, & Gerstorf, ), the place or activity (Wrzus et al, ), the purpose (McCabe & Fleeson, ), and the perceptions (Horstmann & Ziegler, ; Rauthmann et al, ; Sherman et al, ) and behaviours of the individuals involved (Côté & Moskowitz, ; Fournier, Moskowitz, & Zuroff, ; Pincus, ; Pincus, Hopwood, & Wright, ; Wang et al, ). However, in research designs where only the target person's perception is used to measure a situation, distinctions between person and situation variables can become blurred, because person variables may influence situation perception (cf.…”

“…circularity principle; Rauthmann et al, ; see also Leising, Rehbein, & Sporberg, ). This issue appears to be particularly pronounced when studying affect (or happiness) as an outcome variable, because affect has been shown to have substantial effects on situation perceptions (Horstmann & Ziegler, ; see also Horstmann, Rauthmann, Sherman, & Ziegler, ). To avoid circularity, we thus focus on two aspects of the social situation that are (i) unlikely to be subject to perceptual biases and (ii) can be expected to have a substantial impact on individuals' momentary happiness based on prior theory and research: the type of the interaction partner and the purpose of the interaction (a complete list of all available variables is provided in the OSF repository, please also see our results section for a discussion of alternative measures).…”

Psychological situations illuminate the meaning of human behavior: Recent advances and application to social influence processes

“…Recent years witnessed a spike in scholarly interest in developing and validating new multidimensional models and measures of psychological situations. For example, in the past 5 years, different teams have proposed and empirically tested the following novel models of psychological situations: The CAPTION model (Parrigon et al, ), the DIAMONDS model (Rauthmann et al, ), the SAAP model (Situational Affordances for Adaptive Problems; Brown, Neel, & Sherman, ), the Situation 5 (Horstmann & Ziegler, ), and the SIS model (Situational Interdependence Scale; Gerpott et al, ). These models represent different theoretical perspectives, were derived and developed in different ways, and vary considerably in their scope and aim (for comparative reviews and discussions of the different models see: Horstmann, Rauthmann, & Sherman, ; Parrigon, Woo, & Tay, ; Rauthman & Sherman, 2018a, 2018b; Reis, ).…”