Daily Affective Dynamics Predict Depression Symptom Trajectories Among Adults with Major and Minor Depression.

ABSTRACT: Affective dynamics have been increasingly recognized as important indicators of emotional health and well-being. Depression has been associated with altered affective dynamics, but little is known about how daily life affective dynamics predict depression's naturalistic course. We investigated positive and negative affective dynamics (e.g., inertia, variability, and instability) among adults with depressive disorders (N = 60) and healthy controls (N = 38) in both cross-sectional and prospective analyses predicting weekly depression symptoms over 6 months. Relative to controls, depressed individuals showed elevated daily negative affect (NA) and NA variability along with decreased positive affect (PA). However, groups did not significantly differ on other affective dynamic ind

SUBMITTER: Panaite V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9382941 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature