Background Chronic diseases have recently had an increasing effect on maternal-fetal
health, especially in high-income countries. However, there remains a lack of discussion …

Moods are a constant feature of human experience. Although we all experience good and
bad moods, there are individual differences in the propensity to experience positive and …

The role of affective constructs in human behavior in general, and health behavior in
particular, is recapturing the attention of researchers. Affect, mood, and emotion are again …

Using experience-sampling methodology, we examined within-individual relationships
among emotional labor, negative and positive affective states, and work withdrawal, as well …

The recent growth in diary and experience sampling research has increased research
attention on how people change over time in natural settings. Often however, the measures …

Hope is a motivational factor that helps initiate and sustain action toward long-term goals,
including flexible management of obstacles that get in the way of goal attainment. Despite …

The repeated measurement of moods in everyday life, as is common in ambulatory
monitoring, requires parsimonious scales, which may challenge the reliability of the …

The authors investigated the stability of personality and trait affect in young adults. In Studies
1 and 2, young adults were retested on a Big Five personality measure and a trait affect …

Affect plays a central role in human experience, providing the ongoing hedonic tone that
colors the everyday lives of individuals. Not surprisingly, therefore, affect occupies an …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether support could be found for either the
Affect Infusion Model or the Mood Maintenance Hypothesis regarding how mood influences …