Sickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger.

ABSTRACT: Fluctuations in health and sleep are common, but we know surprisingly little about how these daily life stressors affect one's level of frustration and sensitivity to becoming frustrated. In this pre-registered study, 517 participants (M_age = 30.4, SD = 10.4) reported their current sickness symptoms, health status, sleepiness, and sleep duration and quality the previous night. They also rated their general frustration and mood before and after a mild frustration-eliciting task. In the task, participants were instructed to copy geometric shapes onto a piece of paper, without lifting the pen from the paper. Participants were given three minutes to copy the eight shapes, but in order to induce frustration half of them were unsolvable. The study was subsequently repeated in an indep

SUBMITTER: Balter LJT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7810868 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature