When daily emotions spill into life satisfaction: Age differences in emotion globalizing.

ABSTRACT: Although the objective conditions of people's lives are fairly stable from day to day, daily life can feel like an emotional rollercoaster. For some people, life satisfaction hitches a ride on the emotional rollercoaster (i.e., momentary emotions spill over into broader evaluations of life). The extent to which positive and negative emotions spill over into life satisfaction is referred to as positive and negative emotion globalizing. Initial evidence suggests that emotion globalizing varies between individuals and is linked to a maladaptive psychological profile. Integrating a lifespan perspective, this is the first study to identify and describe age differences in emotion globalizing using data from two adult community samples (Study 1: N = 133 women, age range = 23-78; Stu

SUBMITTER: Barlow MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10841306 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature