scholarly journals How Do People Experience and Respond to Social Control From Their Partner? Three Daily Diary Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urte Scholz ◽  
Gertraud Stadler ◽  
Corina Berli ◽  
Janina Lüscher ◽  
Nina Knoll
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Positive Control ◽  
Negative Control ◽  
Target Behavior ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Daily Diary Studies

Positive and negative forms of social control are commonly used to regulate another person’s health-related behaviors, especially in couples. Social control efforts have been shown to result in desirable, but also undesirable effects on different outcomes. Little is known for which outcomes, when, and under which contextual conditions these different effects unfold in people’s everyday lives. Using the dual-effects model of health-related social control, we predicted that same-day and previous-day positive social control would result in desirable effects on target behavior, and same-day positive control on affect. Same-day and previous-day negative control was assumed to result in undesirable effects on reactant responses (i.e., doing the opposite of what the partner wanted and hiding the unhealthy behavior), and same-day negative control on affect. Further, we explored whether it makes a difference if one or both partners intend to change their health behavior. Three daily diary studies addressed these questions for smoking (Studies 1 and 2), and physical activity (Study 3). Receiving more positive control related to more desirable target behavior, and feeling better; more negative control was associated with more reactant responses and feeling worse. Social control unfolded its effects within 1 day, but hardly across days, indicating that control and its reactions to it are fast-acting processes in daily life. The pattern of results were the same for couples with one and both partners intending to change their behavior. Further, results replicated when using partner-reported provided control. Based on these results, social control cannot be unanimously recommended as a behavior change strategy in couples. Future studies should follow up on dyadic and temporal dynamics of social control in couples’ everyday lives in different contexts.

scholarly journals How Will You Regulate My Emotions?: A Multistudy Investigation of Dimensions and Outcomes of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Interactions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Swerdlow ◽  
Sheri Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Provider Behavior ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Autobiographical Recall ◽  
Interpersonal Emotion Regulation ◽  
Daily Diary Studies

Recent conceptual and empirical advances have directed attention toward interpersonal emotion regulation (IER). We conducted a series of autobiographical recall and daily diary studies to investigate a wide range of provider behaviors conveyed during IER interactions, ascertain the number of dimensions required to capture these behaviors, and then to examine associations of those dimensions with the outcomes of IER interactions. To do so, we created a new questionnaire, the Interpersonal Regulation Interaction Scale (IRIS), which can be used to obtain recipients’ ratings of providers’ behaviors within an IER interaction. In Study 1 (n = 390), an exploratory factor analysis of the IRIS yielded four dimensions, which we labeled responsiveness, hostility, cognitive support, and physical presence. Each dimension was uniquely associated with the perceived benefits of receiving IER. In Studies 2-4 (199-895), we collected multiple, diverse samples and found support for the replicability and generalizability of key findings from Study 1, including the factor structure and associations with perceived benefits. Finally, in Study 5, we examined concurrent (i.e., same-day) and prospective (i.e., next-day) associations between ratings of IER provider behaviors and a broader array of psychosocial outcomes using a daily diary approach. Across studies, our findings suggest that the outcomes of IER interactions are tied to the contents of IER interactions as reflected in the dimensions of provider behavior measured by the IRIS, with evidence that each of these dimensions convey unique information relevant to outcomes.

Method Tutorial

2021 ◽  
pp. 225-238
Author(s):  
Erica P. Wood ◽  
Stephanie H Cook
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Financial Incentive ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Sexual Minority Men ◽  
Daily Diary Study ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Daily Diary Studies ◽  
Minority Men ◽  
Study Designs

Retention of emerging adult sexual minority men (SMM) in longitudinal studies including biospecimens collection is often poor. To date, very few methodological examinations exist pertaining to strategies that may increase retention among potentially difficult-to-reach populations, including emerging adult SMM. This chapter describes a multifaceted financial incentive (FI) structure utilized in two daily diary study designs. First, the chapter discusses why typical FI structures may be insufficient for retaining emerging adult SMM in intensive longitudinal study designs due to factors such as increased participant burden. Second, it details two FI approaches utilized in two 5-day daily diary studies examining stress physiology and health behaviors among emerging adult SMM in the Midwest and the Northeast. Last, it discusses how the differing FI structures impacted participation and retention across the two studies. The chapter concludes by providing future directions to researchers who seek to employ intensive longitudinal study designs in emerging adult populations.

Pleasures and subjective well‐being

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigehiro Oishi ◽  
Ulrich Schimmack ◽  
Ed Diener
Keyword(s):  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Daily Diary Study ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Daily Diary Studies ◽  
Moderating Role

In two daily diary studies we examined the moderating role of sensation seeking in the patterns of relations between physical pleasure and life satisfaction. In study 1 (a 52‐day daily diary study), daily physical pleasure was a significantly stronger predictor of daily social satisfaction among high sensation seekers than among low sensation seekers. We extended the finding of study 1 to more general daily satisfaction in study 2 (a 23‐day diary study). The present findings indicate that physical pleasure is associated with daily satisfaction to the degree that one seeks for such an experience. In addition, we tested whether the association between physical pleasure and daily satisfaction would be moderated also by other facets of extraversion and extraversion as a whole. With the exception of the positive emotion facet in study 1, no facet or extraversion as a whole moderated the relation between physical pleasure and daily satisfaction. The present studies show specificity and replicability of the role that sensation seeking plays in understanding the link between daily physical pleasure and daily satisfaction. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

You want me to do what? Two daily diary studies of illegitimate tasks and employee well-being

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin M. Eatough ◽  
Laurenz L. Meier ◽  
Ivana Igic ◽  
Achim Elfering ◽  
Paul E. Spector ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Diary ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Daily Diary Studies

Everyday Sexism: Evidence for Its Incidence, Nature, and Psychological Impact From Three Daily Diary Studies

2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet K. Swim ◽  
Lauri L. Hyers ◽  
Laurie L. Cohen ◽  
Melissa J. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Daily Diary Studies
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