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Bursts of Self-Conscious Emotions in the Daily Lives of Emerging Adults

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Self-conscious emotions play a role in regulating daily achievement strivings, social behavior, and health, but little is known about the processes underlying their daily manifestation. Emerging adults (n = 182) completed daily diaries for eight days and multilevel models were estimated to evaluate whether, how much, and why their emotions varied from day-to-day. Within-person variation in authentic pride was normally-distributed across people and days whereas the other emotions were burst-like and characterized by zero-inflated, negative binomial distributions. Perceiving social interactions as generally communal increased the odds of hubristic pride activation and reduced the odds of guilt activation; daily communal behavior reduced guilt intensity. Results illuminated processes through which meaning about the self-in-relation-to-others is constructed during a critical period of development.

Source: Self and Identity

DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2014.983963

Authors: David E. Conroy, Nilam Ram, Aaron L. Pincus, Amanda L. Rebar

Institutions: Northwestern University, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, Central Queensland University

Language: English

Topic: Emotions and Moral Behavior

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute on Aging

Award: ARRA: Tools for Articulating Within-Person Dynamic Models of Interpersonal Intera