Reduced positive affect on days with stress exposure predicts depression, anxiety disorders, and low trait positive affect 7 years later.

ABSTRACT: Positive emotions serve important functions for mental health. Susceptibility to reduced positive emotions in the context of stress may increase risk for poor mental health outcomes, including anxiety and depressive disorders and low overall levels of positive emotion. In an 8-day daily diary study within a larger panel study (N = 1,517), we tested whether degree of reduction in time spent experiencing positive affect on days of stress exposure predicted lower levels of positive affect and elevated risk for major depressive and anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety disorder or panic disorder) 7 years later. Bayesian multilevel structural equation modeling controlling for overall levels of affect, stress exposure, leisure time, sex, age, and past year diagnoses of depression and anx

SUBMITTER: Rackoff GN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8048702 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature