How is the life without unicorns? A within-individual study on the relationship between uncertainty and mental health indicators: The moderating role of neuroticism

Silva, Ana Junça; Silva, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.111462

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“…To study the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic severity and psychological health on a shorter time scale, Study 2 examined psychological health weekly over 8 weeks early in the pandemic. In microlongitudinal (momentary, daily, or weekly) studies during the pandemic, psychological traits, states, and behavior were associated with stress and distress over 1–4-week time spans (Fried et al, 2022; Jiang, 2020, 2022; Jiang et al, 2022; Junça-Silva & Silva, 2022; Landmann & Rohmann, 2022; Price et al, 2022; Shaw et al, 2023; Vowels et al, 2022; Xia et al, 2021). None examined adaptation to an objective stressor such as COVID-19 pandemic severity.…”

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Adaptation to changes in COVID-19 pandemic severity: Across older adulthood and time scales.

Segerstrom¹,

Crosby²,

Witzel³

et al. 2023

Psychology and Aging

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been observed to negatively affect older adults’ psychological health compared with prepandemic levels. However, older adults’ coping efficacy may differ depending on their age, and little is known about effects of fluctuations in pandemic severity. Two longitudinal studies tested the hypothesis that pandemic severity would affect psychological health and be moderated by age. In Study 1 (N = 111), older adults (aged 62–96) were assessed semiannually before and after the first United States COVID-19 case over up to 10 years. Depressive symptoms and stress, but not cognitive difficulties, were higher during COVID-19; pandemic severity had little effect. Estimated increases were smaller for a 65-year-old than for an 85-year-old. In Study 2 (N = 221), older adults (aged 51–95) were assessed weekly over up to 8 weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher national pandemic severity was associated with more cognitive difficulties, more depressive symptoms, and more stress. In an opposite pattern from Study 1, estimated increases were larger for a 65-year-old than for an 85-year-old. Old–old adults might be most susceptible to long-term psychological effects of the pandemic era, as in Study 1, but more resilient to short-term effects, as in Study 2. Coping strategies associated with increasing age may be less efficacious for more chronic and severe problems. Conversely, the same coping strategies may be more efficacious for shorter, less severe problems. Differentiating between reactivity to longer term and shorter term pandemic stressors can identify the most resilient or vulnerable ages within older adulthood.

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Section: Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptation to changes in COVID-19 pandemic severity: Across older adulthood and time scales.

Segerstrom¹,

Crosby²,

Witzel³

et al. 2023

Psychology and Aging

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“…Junça‐Silva and Silva (2022) demonstrated that daily uplifts not only made the individual feel experience positive affect but also uplifted his/her well‐being. Bai et al (2021) showed, across six studies, that awe‐related events decreased daily stress through an appraisal of vastness vis‐à‐vis the self, which in turn boosted life satisfaction.…”

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“…Jans-Beken et al, 2020), specifically considering the uncertain times lived nowadays (e.g. Junça-Silva & Silva, 2022), no studies are exploring the role of gratitude as a boundary condition that may be framed within the AET and, hence, may be treated as an individual difference. Therefore, based on the AET, we defined a framework arguing that daily microevents will trigger affective reactions that will influence daily satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gratitude intersects with affect as a boundary condition for daily satisfaction: An affective dynamics perspective

Mosteo

Silva

Lopes

2022

Applied Psych Health & Well

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This study is based on the affective events theory to investigate the situational predictors for gratitude‐related differences in daily affect and satisfaction. We tested a moderated mediation model in which daily microevents (daily hassles and uplifts) were related to satisfaction through affect, at the within‐person level. We also tested the cross‐level interaction of gratitude on this indirect relationship. A total of 195 participants participated in a 5‐day diary study (195 * 5 = 975 measurement occasions). Multilevel modeling showed that, at the person‐level of analysis, daily microevents were significantly related to daily affect and, in turn, to daily satisfaction. At the daily level of analysis, trait‐based gratitude moderated the mediation of daily positive affect on the relationship between daily uplifts and daily satisfaction, such that it become stronger for individuals who scored lower on gratitude, but gratitude did not moderate the relationship between daily hassles, negative affect, and satisfaction. These findings make relevant theoretical contributions to understanding the power of gratitude for daily affective dynamics. These results also expand knowledge on within‐person processes that explain daily affect and satisfaction, in addition to more traditional between‐person factors. In sum, the present research demonstrates that “being grateful” may be associated with being happy and that individuals who are less grateful need to experience more daily uplifts and positive affect to feel satisfied.

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“…With the pandemic crisis experienced since 2020, there has been a significant increase in stress and anxiety levels (Junça‐Silva & Silva, 2022), which has led to a consequent decrease in sleep quality, motivation, and performance (Rivkin et al, 2023). Sleep is a crucial daily recovery experience that significantly influences the individual's available resources (Barnes, 2012) and, as such, facilitates performance (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

The intersectional effects of motivational and affective factors on managers' performance

Silva

Mendes

2023

Applied Psych Health & Well

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Drawing from the effort‐recovery model, the authors analyzed the role of daily sleep quality as a driver for self‐regulatory resources and consequently of task and contextual performance. Specifically, the authors hypothesized that self‐regulatory resources would be a potential mechanism for enhancing workers' performance after a good night's sleep. Moreover, relying on the COR theory, the authors proposed health‐related indicators (mental health and vitality) as intensifiers of the previously proposed indirect effect. Daily diary data were collected from 97 managers over five consecutive working days (485 daily observations) and analyzed using multilevel analyses. Sleep quality was positively associated with managers' self‐regulatory resources and (task and contextual) performance at the person and day levels. Additionally, results provided support for most of the assumed indirect effects of sleep quality on both performance dimensions via self‐regulatory resources. At last, the findings evidenced that these indirect effects were moderated by health indicators in a way that lower scores on health intensified such positive effects. Organizations should create mechanisms that could promote their workers' awareness of the potential benefits of sleeping well at night as well as its impacts on both self‐regulatory resources and performance. The current intensification of workload together with working after hours may pose a risk to this important resource source for managers. These findings emphasize the day‐to‐day variation in self‐regulatory resources needed to perform and that workers' sleep quality has the potential to stimulate a resource‐building process for such benefits.

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How is the life without unicorns? A within-individual study on the relationship between uncertainty and mental health indicators: The moderating role of neuroticism

Cited by 26 publications

References 57 publications

Adaptation to changes in COVID-19 pandemic severity: Across older adulthood and time scales.

Adaptation to changes in COVID-19 pandemic severity: Across older adulthood and time scales.

Gratitude intersects with affect as a boundary condition for daily satisfaction: An affective dynamics perspective

The intersectional effects of motivational and affective factors on managers' performance

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