Mood Fluctuations: Women Versus Men and Menstrual Versus Other Cycles

McFarlane, Jessica Motherwell; Martin, Carol Lynn; Williams, Tannis M.

doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.1988.tb00937.x

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“…Using a 9 ϫ 9 rectangular grid of squares, the participant was asked to indicate the extent to which the person was feeling pleasure-displeasure on the horizontal dimension of the grid, and the extent of arousal-sleepiness on the vertical dimension of the grid. The affect grid has previously been used to assess mood in a daily sampling study occurring over a 2-month period (McFarlane et al 1988). The affect grid is considered to be a particularly useful tool when the time needed to make an assessment of affect must be minimized, as in the completion of the record forms in an event-sampling study.…”

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The Effect of Tryptophan on Social Interaction in Everyday Life A Placebo-Controlled Study

Moskowitz

Pinard

Zuroff

et al. 2001

Neuropsychopharmacology

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In monkeys increasing serotonin function enhances affiliative interactions and promotes the acquisition of dominance. To examine whether similar effects occur in humans, we treated 98 subjects for 12 days with the serotonin precursor tryptophan (1g TID) and for 12 days with placebo in a doubleThe quality and nature of social interactions are defining features of both mental health and psychiatric disorders, but the tools used to study social interaction in psychopharmacological research generally examine global functioning rather than specific aspects of social interaction. Social science research in this area has advanced greatly over the past decade, and it is possible to conceptualize major components of social interaction and how these components are interrelated. While details vary, typically interpersonal behaviors can be organized in a circle defined by two major axes (Carson 1969;Foa 1961;Kiesler 1983;Leary 1957;Wiggins 1995;Wiggins and Broughton 1985). One axis encompasses dominant and submissive behaviors. This axis has been called by various names including agency, power, and status. Dominant behaviors include setting goals for others or telling others to do something while submissive behaviors include not voicing an opinion or waiting for others to act (Moskowitz 1994). The second axis encompasses agreeable and quarrelsome behaviors. Sample agreeable behaviors include listening attentively to others and expressing reassurance while quarrelsome behaviors include showing impatience and making sarcastic comments (Moskowitz 1994). Among many labels, this axis has been referred to as communion or affiliation.The two axes of human social interaction can be studied using an event sampling method. This method assesses individuals' social behaviors and affect in individuals' natural environments rather than in the laboratory. The individual completes a brief questionnaire after each significant social interaction, throughout the 25 , NO . 2 day. Abundant evidence has accumulated demonstrating the reliability and validity of methods for sampling interpersonal behavior and affect in everyday life (Csikszentmihalyi and Larson 1987;Diener and Emmons 1984;McAdams and Constantian 1983;Moskowitz 1994). While behavior along the axes varies greatly from one social interaction to the next, aggregation of behaviors in events across several days provides measures with substantial temporal stability (Brown and Moskowitz 1998). The event-contingent recording procedure (Wheeler and Reis 1991) used in the present study has several advantages. Interpersonal situations are sampled throughout the day, providing reports of behavior and affect at home and at work. Reports of behavior and affect are recorded close in time to their occurrence, so retrospective biases are minimized. It is possible to construct behavior and affect scores for time periods of specified lengths, such as morning, afternoon, and evening, or a day, or a week. Previous research using this method has demonstrated the concurrent relation between interper...

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The Effect of Tryptophan on Social Interaction in Everyday Life A Placebo-Controlled Study

Moskowitz

Pinard

Zuroff

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Neuropsychopharmacology

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“…Previous psychological research analysing weekly cycles in mood, however, has been conducted only on undergraduate students [Larsen and Kasimatis 1990;McFarlane et al 1988], whose life is especially governed by weekly rhythms. This finding thus cannot be simply generalised to apply to the total population.…”

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The Mid-week Effect and Why Thursdays Are Blue: The Weekly Rhythm of Satisfaction in Hungary

Keller¹

2018

Czech Sociological Review

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Abstract:Research on the weekly fluctuation in people's satisfaction has produced mixed results about the nadir of levels of satisfaction in different countries. This paper uses a Hungarian household survey with approximately 3400 individual observations. The fluctuation in satisfaction over the course of the week is assessed according to the day on which the personal interview was conducted during a six-week period of fieldwork. The analysis investigates the extent to which this is the result of a random process. Unlike previous analysis, the nadir in satisfaction (in Hungary) is found to occur midweek. This is explained as being related to workload. The results are robust after controlling for the interviewers' unobserved characteristics or the hour of completion of the interview. Modification in workdays owing to national holidays did not alter the results. The results reveal which social groups are especially vulnerable to fluctuations in satisfaction. This could have practical consequences for a more efficient work-life balance. The paper suggests questions for future research, which in particular should seek to understand differences between nations in terms of the nadir of satisfaction and to find a solution to the self-selection problem that may result in an underestimation of the true size of the weekly nadir. Keywords: weekly rhythm in satisfaction, day-of-the-week effect, mid-week effect, satisfaction with life

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“…This approach has advantages over others that rely on participants' retrospective reports of typical leisure time use (MacFarlane, Martin, & Williams, 1988). To our knowledge, this is one of only a handful of studies (e.g., Demerouti et al, 2009;Sonnentag, 2001) to have established specific and differential relationships between affective well-being variation at the within-person level and amount of physical, social and low-effort activities performed during the workweek.…”

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Daily Fluctuations in Office-Based Workers’ Leisure Activities and Well-Being

Ménard¹,

Foucreault²,

Stevens³

et al. 2016

IJPS

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This day-level study examines links between the amount of leisure time devoted to social, physical, and low-effort activities after the workday and affective well-being at bedtime. A sample of 95 office-based workers completed surveys over four consecutive days at bedtime (380 data points). Results revealed a within-person effect of leisure activity on daily affective well-being. Participants consistently reported enhanced mood before sleep on days when they spent more hours engaging in physical and social activities compared to their personal average number of hours spent on these activities across the four days of the study. However, on days when more hours were spent on low-effort activity, participants consistently reported decreased positive emotions. This suggests that time allocation to certain leisure activities may better support well-being on a daily basis. Discussion focuses on the implications of these findings for helping individuals enhance their evening leisure experiences by making astute leisure choices.

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Mood Fluctuations: Women Versus Men and Menstrual Versus Other Cycles

Cited by 96 publications

References 46 publications

The Effect of Tryptophan on Social Interaction in Everyday Life A Placebo-Controlled Study

The Effect of Tryptophan on Social Interaction in Everyday Life A Placebo-Controlled Study

The Mid-week Effect and Why Thursdays Are Blue: The Weekly Rhythm of Satisfaction in Hungary

Daily Fluctuations in Office-Based Workers’ Leisure Activities and Well-Being

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