Romantic (versus other) events and momentary affect: Immediate and lagged within-person associations among college students.

ABSTRACT: Given that affect is highly responsive to experiences representing current goals and values, and young adulthood reflects a period in which romantic relationships become increasingly important, this study explored the links between everyday romantic relationship events and momentary affect among young adult college students. Romantic events were then directly compared to academic and family events-two other salient life domains for these students-as predictors of current and subsequent momentary affect. Drawn from an ecological momentary sampling study designed to assess substance use, participants in dating relationships (N = 130) completed four reports per day for 28 days (totaling 10,318 reports). Multilevel models tested within-person associations between positive and negative romantic

SUBMITTER: Blumenstock SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8720109 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature