scholarly journals Examining the Associations Between Online Interactions and Momentary Affect in Depressed Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Summer H. Moukalled ◽  
David S. Bickham ◽  
Michael Rich
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Generalized Estimating Equations ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Relationship Type ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Youth Depression ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

Concern has been raised over parallel increases in youth depression and online interactive media use over the past two decades. The aim of this study was to determine whether online interactions are associated with users’ affective states. Using ecological momentary assessment, we measured depressed adolescents’ momentary affect during and residual feelings following online interactions with offline friends and family, online friends, and acquaintances/strangers. We found that depressed adolescents use texting services and social networking sites to interact online, most frequently with offline friends and family, followed by online friends. Results of generalized estimating equations showed associations between negative affect and digital interactions with offline friends and family. Participants were less likely to report feeling better after interacting with online friends than after interacting with any other relationship type. Our findings highlight the heterogeneity of depressed adolescents’ online interactions and suggest that their affective experience varies depending on the nature of the relationships they have with those with whom they interact.

Predictors of affect following discharge from partial hospitalization: a two-week ecological momentary assessment study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Marie Forgeard ◽  
Courtney Beard ◽  
Danielle Shayani ◽  
Alexandra L. Silverman ◽  
Eli Tsukayama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Momentary Assessment ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Partial Hospitalization ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

Abstract Background Little is known about the everyday experiences of individuals transitioning from acute to outpatient psychiatric care, an important period of risk for mood symptom relapse. This study used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine whether specific daily experiences were related to momentary affective states following discharge from a partial hospitalization program (PHP). Methods A sample of 114 adults (Mage = 36 years old, 52% female, 83% White) completed four brief EMA surveys every day for 2 weeks assessing intensity/type of stressful events and social contact, as well as positive/negative affect (PA/NA). Half of participants reported therapeutic skills use. Results Stress severity ratings prospectively predicted increased NA. NA predicted spending less time with close relationships. However, interacting with close relationships predicted increased positive affect (PA). Finally, PA predicted spending time with more people. The use of two skills (behavioral activation and interpersonal effectiveness) was concurrently, but not prospectively, associated with improved affect. Conclusions Examining daily experiences of individuals discharging from partial hospitalization provides important information about factors that may influence affective states during the transition from acute to outpatient care. Findings from this study can be used to help prepare patients for discharge and develop interventions for the post-acute period.

Perceptions of the Meaningfulness of Work Among Older Social Purpose Workers: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 1121-1146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Matz-Costa ◽  
Stephanie Cosner Berzin ◽  
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes ◽  
Cal J Halvorsen
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Ecological Momentary Assessment ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

The ecological momentary assessment (EMA) method was used to examine the antecedents and correlates of older adults’ in-the-moment perceptions of meaning at work. Data were collected six times per day for 7 days from 30 older adults who were mostly social entrepreneurs and who were engaged in purpose work (i.e., work that addresses a social problem or issue). We found concurrent effects of two types of affective states (i.e., relaxed and energetic) and generative work behaviors (i.e., sharing information about one’s work and encouraging/inviting others into one’s work) on three measures of perceptions of meaningful work (i.e., high passion for one’s work, high sense of engagement in one’s work, and high connection to a sense of meaning in life). Feeling energetic had a lagged effect on meaningful work approximately 2.5 and 5 hr later in the day. We consider ways to foster engagement in meaningful work as a path toward healthy aging.

scholarly journals The psychosocial predictors and real-time antecedents of substance use among participants recruited via an online crowdsourcing platform in the United States: an ecological momentary assessment study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Payaal Jain ◽  
Claudine Offer ◽  
Christopher Rowe ◽  
Caitlin Turner ◽  
Carol Dawson-Rose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Ecological Momentary Assessment ◽  
Crack Cocaine ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

BACKGROUND Substance use is a major public health problem and contributes substantially to the burden of disease among adults throughout the United States (US). To inform interventions, there is a need to identify the antecedents of substance use by collecting data in real-time using ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Also, crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) which leverage the internet to conduct research used in conjunction with EMA, may improve the scientific rigor of addiction science. OBJECTIVE We aimed to: 1) utilize EMA data and examine the temporal relationship between day-level cravings for alcohol and stimulants (e.g., cocaine, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine) and substance use (i.e., heavy drinking or any drug use) in a given day; and 2) assess whether depression, negative affect, and self-esteem measured at baseline predicted substance use in a given day, among participants recruited using MTurk. METHODS Adults in the US who reported alcohol or stimulant use (i.e., crack cocaine, cocaine, or methamphetamine) in the past year, were recruited using MTurk in 2018. Participants completed a baseline survey assessing socio-demographics, and psychosocial factors, and daily diaries assessing substance use, and cravings for alcohol and stimulants, online. Four multivariable random-intercept logistic regression models were built to examine psychosocial constructs separately along with other significant predictors from bivariate analyses, controlling for age and education. RESULTS Among a total of 272 participants, the average age was 36.1 (standard deviation [SD]=10.5), most (80.8%) were white and male (73.9%), and 65.3% were men who reported having sex with other men (MSM). At baseline, 63.8% engaged in any current or past hazardous alcohol consumption, 15.3% reported using cocaine, 10.1% reported using methamphetamine, 4.4% reported using crack cocaine, and 38.2% reported any non-injection or injection drug use in the past six months. On a scale from 0-100, median day-level cravings for alcohol, methamphetamine, cocaine and crack cocaine were; 5 (interquartile range [IQR]=0-26), 54 (IQR=20-88), 39 (IQR=1-71), and 52 (IQR=51-87), respectively. In multivariable analyses, factors independently associated with substance use in a given day were: higher baseline levels of depression (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]=1.11, 95% CI=1.02-1.21, P=0.01), and negative affect (aOR=1.08, 95% CI=1.01-1.16, P=0.01), lower levels of self-esteem (aOR=0.90, 95% CI=0.82-0.98, P=0.02), and greater day-level cravings for alcohol (aOR=1.02, 95% CI=1.01-1.03, P<0.001), and stimulants (aOR=1.03, 95% CI=1.01-1.04, P=0.01). Lastly, MSM had a higher odds of engaging in substance use in a given day in all final models: (aOR=4.90, 95% CI=1.28-18.70, p=0.02); (aOR=5.47, 95% CI=1.43-20.87, p=0.01); (aOR=5.99, 95% CI=1.55-23.13, p=0.009); and (aOR=4.94, 95% CI=1.29-18.84, p=0.01). CONCLUSIONS Substance use interventions should utilize evidenced-based approaches to reduce depression, negative affect, and cravings, increase self-esteem, and engage MSM. Interventions may also consider leveraging mobile health platforms to more effectively reduce substance use among populations who use crowdsourcing platforms.

scholarly journals The costs of over-control in anorexia nervosa: evidence from fMRI and ecological momentary assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Pauligk ◽  
Maria Seidel ◽  
Sophia Fürtjes ◽  
Joseph A. King ◽  
Daniel Geisler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Ecological Momentary Assessment ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Fmri Session ◽  
Negative Affective States ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

AbstractA growing body of evidence suggests that a high level of self-control may, despite its positive effects, influence cognitive processing in an unfavorable manner. However, the affective costs of self-control have only rarely been investigated. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder that is often characterized by excessive self-control. Here, we used fMRI to explore whether over-control in AN may have negative affective consequences. 36 predominantly adolescent female AN patients and 36 age-matched healthy controls (HC) viewed negative and neutral pictures during two separate fMRI sessions before and after 10 min of rest. We tested whether abnormally elevated neural activity during the initial presentation in a brain region broadly implicated in top-down control, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), could predict subsequent activation in limbic areas relevant to bottom-up affective processing. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we also tested for associations between the aforementioned neuroimaging markers and negative affective states in the two weeks following the experiment. fMRI data revealed that higher initial activation of the dlPFC in AN predicted increased amygdala reactivity during the second fMRI session, which in turn was related to increased self-reported tension during two weeks following the scan. These data suggest that over-control in AN patients may come at a cost including negative affective states on a short (minutes) as well as a longer time scale (days). This mechanism may significantly contribute to the persistence of AN.

scholarly journals Doing exercise or sport together with one’s child is positively associated with mothers’ momentary affect in daily life, but not with higher levels of overall physical activity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Kanning ◽  
Bridgette Do ◽  
Tyler B. Mason ◽  
Britni R. Belcher ◽  
Chih-Hsiang Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Inactivity ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Light Physical Activity ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Momentary Assessment

Abstract Background Physical inactivity is a widespread problem with a great need for innovative intervention concepts to overcome it. Epidemiological studies have identified working women in high-income Western countries to be at greater risk for physical inactivity. The current study included working mothers and examined within-subject associations between doing exercise/sport together with one’s child and five different affective states, and with light physical activity (LPA) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA).Method: During one week, mothers (N = 192) completed up to eight ecological momentary assessment (EMA) surveys a day to assess momentary affect and certain situational circumstances (e.g., doing exercise/sport, being together with child). Physical activity was assessed objectively with waist-worn accelerometers. Results Multilevel analysis showed that doing exercise/sport together with one’s child was associated with higher positive affect and lower negative affect compared to being active alone. However, greater frequency of doing exercise/sport together with children was negatively associated with MVPA. Discussion Due to the positive effect on momentary affect, combining spending time together with one’s child and simultaneously doing exercise/sport might be a good strategy of pairing two relevant personal goals. However, this strategy was not associated with sufficient MVPA.

scholarly journals Some recommendations on the use of daily life methods in affective science

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kuppens ◽  
Egon Dejonckheere ◽  
Elise Katherine Kalokerinos ◽  
Peter Koval
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Affective Science ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
Momentary Assessment

Real-world emotions are often more vivid, personally meaningful, and consequential than those evoked in the lab. Therefore, studying emotions in daily life is essential to test theories, discover new phenomena, and understand healthy emotional functioning; in short, to move affective science forward. The past decades have seen a surge of research using daily diary, experience sampling, or ecological momentary assessment methods to study emotional phenomena in daily life. In this paper, we will share some of the insights we have gained from our collective experience applying such daily life methods to study everyday affective processes. We highlight what we see as important considerations and caveats involved in using these methods and formulate recommendations to improve their use in future research. These insights focus on the importance of (i) theory and hypothesis-testing; (ii) measurement; (iii) timescale; and (iv) context, when studying emotions in their natural habitat.

scholarly journals Age-varying Bi-directional Associations Between Momentary Affect and Movement Behaviors in Children: Evidence From a Multi-wave Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Hsiang Yang ◽  
Jennifer Zink ◽  
Britni R Belcher ◽  
Martina Kanning ◽  
Genevieve F Dunton
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Ecological Momentary Assessment ◽  
Sedentary Time ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

Abstract Background The bi-directional associations between affective states and movement behaviors (e.g., physical activity, sedentary behavior) have been observed in children. It is unclear if the strength of these bi-directional associations varies with age as children transition from childhood to adolescence. Purpose This multi-wave ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study investigates the acute time-varying associations between affect and movement behaviors among youth. Methods Children (N = 195, baseline mean age = 10.72, range = 8–12 years, mean BMI-z = 0.49, 51% female) participated in a six-wave EMA study across three years. Each EMA survey captured momentary positive and negative affect. Time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary time in the 15-min window before and after each EMA survey was calculated using accelerometry data. Time-varying effect models (TVEM) examined the acute bi-directional associations between momentary positive/negative affect and MVPA/sedentary time across ages 8 to 14. Results Children provided 14,246 valid activity-matched EMA surveys across all waves. TVEM plots revealed that the directionality and the strength (time-varying slopes) of associations between momentary affect and activity levels vary across ages. Positive affect was associated with higher MVPA levels and lower sedentary time at younger ages, whereas negative affect linked to lower MVPA levels and more sedentary time at older ages. Conclusions The acute associations between momentary affect and (in)activity levels may vary as a function of children's age. Applying TVEM to intensive longitudinal data could provide valuable information for developing age-tailored interventions that promote healthy lifestyles among children and adolescents.

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