Older adults report experiencing improved emotional health, such as more intense positive affect and less intense negative affect. However, there are mixed findings on whether older adults are better ...at regulating emotion-a hallmark feature of emotional health-and most research is based on laboratory studies that may not capture how people regulate their emotions in everyday life. We used experience sampling to examine how multiple measures of emotional health, including mean affect, dynamic fluctuations between affective states and the ability to resist desires-a common form of emotion regulation-differ in daily life across adulthood. Participants (N = 122, ages 20-80) reported how they were feeling and responding to desire temptations for 10 days. Older adults experienced more intense positive affect, less intense negative affect, and were more emotionally stable, even after controlling for individual differences in global life satisfaction. Older adults were more successful at regulating desires, even though they experienced more intense desires than younger adults. In addition, adults in general experiencing more intense affect were less successful at resisting desires. These results demonstrate how emotional experience is related to more successful desire regulation in everyday life and provide unique evidence that emotional health and regulation improve with age.
ZusammenfassungHintergrundIm Jahr 2020 waren 5,7 Mio. Menschen in Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufen tätig. Der Kontakt mit anderen Menschen ist in diesen Berufen Teil des Arbeitsauftrags und der Mensch ...ist der Arbeitsgegenstand.Ziel der ArbeitDas Ziel der Arbeit ist die Untersuchung der Auswirkung von psychischer Belastung (Arbeitsintensität, Spielräume), emotionaler Erschöpfung und emotionalen Kompetenzen (Regulation) auf das psychische Wohlbefinden bei Beschäftigten in Gesundheitsberufen.Material und MethodenDie Erhebung der Querschnittstudie von 624 Beschäftigten aus der Altenpflege und dem Rettungsdienst (72,5 % weiblich) erfolgte im Rahmen zweier Projekte zur betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung. Zum Einsatz kamen standardisierte validierte Verfahren, welche mittels Korrelationsanalysen sowie einer hierarchischen Regressionsanalyse zur Vorhersage des psychischen Wohlbefindens ausgewertet wurden.ErgebnisseHohe Arbeitsintensität, hohe Spielräume, hohe emotionale Erschöpfung und eine hohe emotionale Kompetenz (Regulation) tragen zur Aufklärung des psychischen Wohlbefindens bei (R2 = 33 %).SchlussfolgerungAnhand der Ergebnisse wird deutlich, dass neben dem Erleben von Arbeit und Gesundheit auch emotionale Kompetenzen einen Einfluss auf die psychische Gesundheit bei Beschäftigten in Gesundheitsberufen haben. Damit leistet die Studie einen wichtigen Beitrag für die Entwicklung von Maßnahmen des betrieblichen Gesundheitsmanagements in diesen Berufsgruppen.
This Special Issue explores empirical studies of emotional mechanisms, qualitative and quantitative measurements of emotion, the recognition of emotional contexts, and the application of emotion. We ...introduce fourteen papers, ranging from lab-based studies aimed at understanding emotional mechanisms to applying emotion recognition in the real world (e.g., in driving, games, education, and virtual avatars). This Special Issue explores empirical studies of emotional mechanisms, qualitative and quantitative measurements of emotion, the recognition of emotional contexts, and the application of emotion. We introduce fourteen papers, ranging from lab-based studies aimed at understanding emotional mechanisms to applying emotion recognition in the real world (e.g., in driving, games, education, and virtual avatars).
Following the successful Sex and Manners, this highly original book explains the sweeping changes to twentieth-century regimes of manners and self. Broad in scope and deep in analytic reach, it ...provides a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how changes in the code of manners and emotions in four countries (Germany, Netherlands, England and the US) have undergone increasing informalization. From the growing taboo toward the displays of superiority and inferiority and diminishing social and psychicogical distance between people, it reveals an ′emancipation of emotions′ and the new representation of emotion at the centre of personality.
Editor-in-Chief Sherratt, R Simon
IEEE transactions on consumer electronics,
2016-November, 2016-11-00, 20161101, Volume:
62, Issue:
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It is with mixed emotions that I present my last issue of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics as its Editor-in-Chief. My first three-year term covered the period 2011–2013, and I agreed to ...continue for a second three year term covering 2014–2016. It’s now time to pass the baton on.
Affective meditation on the Passionwas one of the most popular literary genres of the high and later Middle Ages. Proliferating in a rich variety of forms, these lyrical, impassioned, script-like ...texts in Latin and the vernacular had a deceptively simple goal: to teach their readers how to feel. They were thus instrumental in shaping and sustaining the wide-scale shift in medieval Christian sensibility from fear of God to compassion for the suffering Christ.Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassionadvances a new narrative for this broad cultural change and the meditative writings that both generated and reflected it. Sarah McNamer locates women as agents in the creation of the earliest and most influential texts in the genre, from John of Fécamp'sLibellusto theMeditationes vitae Christi, thus challenging current paradigms that cast the compassionate affective mode as Anselmian or Franciscan in origin. The early development of the genre in women's practices had a powerful and lasting legacy. With special attention to Middle English texts, including Nicholas Love'sMirrorand a wide range of Passion lyrics and laments,Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassionilluminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion. To feel compassion for Christ, in the private drama of the heart that these texts stage, was to feel like a woman. This was an assumption about emotion that proved historically consequential, McNamer demonstrates, as she traces some of its legal, ethical, and social functions in late medieval England.
This experimental study addresses the question of whether positive and negative emotions have an influence on diversification behaviour, and it reveals that only a small part of subjects take ...rational decisions and always choose the optimal portfolio. In addition, the study shows that the mood of subjects has an influence on their portfolio decisions and thus also on their exposure to risk. The average risk of the portfolio - measured against the standard deviation of the returns - is lower in the treatment entitled ‘neutral’ than in the treatments entitled ‘positive’ and ‘negative’.
Se analiza la influencia del contexto en las reacciones conductuales y emocionales ante una situación de crimen de guerra en cadetes militares (N = 315). El estudio se basa en la experiencia de ...Milgram y en la tragedia de My Lai. Examina la obediencia personal y de los compañeros ante una orden antinormativa (preguntando a los participantes si obedecerían una orden de disparar a civiles desarmados) en cinco viñetas o escenarios que reproducen las condiciones de Milgram y el escenario de MyLai. Se trata de un estudio experimental entre dos escenarios por dos condiciones (Milgram, 1974). Se midió la obediencia personal y colectiva de otros militares, las reacciones emocionales y los valores de Schwartz (2012). Mostrando el aumento de la auto-prejuicio se informa de que los pares serían más propensos a disparar que uno. Replicando los resultados de Milgram, la obediencia es mayor cuando la orden es dada directamente por una autoridad, y menor cuando hay conflicto entre autoridades y compañeros rebeldes. Confirmando que la identificación con la humanidad y no solo con el grupo interno puede impulsar a los encuestados a rechazar una orden antinormativa, los valores de trascendencia del yo se asocian con menos obediencia y reacciones emocionales congruentes. El liderazgo transformacional autopercibido se asoció con emociones positivas hacia los compañeros que desobedecen al fuego. Sin embargo un estilo transformacional percibido en el superior se asoció a emociones positivas por respeto al soldado que abre fuego, añadiendo información sobre el potencial lado oscuro de este estilo de liderazgo. Se discute la relevancia de los valores personales, el estilo de liderazgo y la afectividad en el contexto militar.
Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything “neuro.” On the other hand, emotions have ...become an object of constant individual and social manipulation since “emotional intelligence” emerged as a buzzword of our times. Reflecting on this burgeoning interest in human emotions makes one think of how this interest developed and what fuelled it. From a historian’s point of view, it can be traced back to classical antiquity. But it has undergone shifts and changes which can in turn shed light on social concepts of the self and its relation to other human beings (and nature). The volume focuses on the historicity of emotions and explores the processes that brought them to the fore of public interest and debate.
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