Emodiversity, health, and well-being in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) daily diary study.

ABSTRACT: Emodiversity, or the variety and relative abundance of emotions experienced, provides a metric that can be used to understand emotional experience and its relation to well-being above and beyond average levels of positive and negative affect. Past research has found that more diverse emotional experiences, both positive and negative, are related to better mental and physical health outcomes. The present research aimed to test the relationship between positive and negative emodiversity across the span of 8 days with measures of health and well-being using 2 samples of the Midlife in the United States study (http://midus.wisc.edu/). Participants (N = 2,788) reported emotional states (14 negative, 13 positive) once each day for 8 days. Emodiversity scores were computed for each day usi

SUBMITTER: Urban-Wojcik EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7544683 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature