scholarly journals How Do Emotions during Goal Pursuit in Weight Change over Time? Retrospective Computational Text Analysis of Goal Setting and Striving Conversations with a Coach during a Mobile Weight Loss Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 6600
Author(s):  
Heather Behr ◽  
Annabell Suh Ho ◽  
Ellen Siobhan Mitchell ◽  
Qiuchen Yang ◽  
Laura DeLuca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Weight Loss Program ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Over Time

During behavioral weight management, individuals reflect on their progress and barriers through goal pursuit (goal setting and goal striving). Emotions during goal pursuit are largely unknown, and previous investigations of emotions in weight management have primarily relied on self-report. In this retrospective study, we used a well-validated computational text analysis approach to explore how emotion words changed over time during goal setting and striving conversations with a coach in a mobile weight loss program. Linear mixed models examined changes in emotion words each month from baseline to program end and compared emotion words between individuals who set an overall concrete goal for the program (concrete goal setters) and those who set an overall abstract goal (abstract goal setters). Contrary to findings using self-report, positive emotion words were stable and negative emotion words significantly increased over time. There was a marginal trend towards greater negative emotion word use being associated with greater weight loss. Concrete goal setters used more positive words than abstract goal setters, with no differences in negative emotion words and weight loss. Implications include the possibility that individuals may need increasing support over time for negative emotions expressed during goal setting and striving, and concrete goals could boost positive emotion. Future research should investigate these possibilities.

The Effect of Frames on Personal Narratives of Bullying Memories

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110063
Author(s):  
Abigail M. Stark ◽  
Olivia H. Tousignant ◽  
Gary D. Fireman
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Psychosocial Effects ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Bullying Experiences ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Past Experiences

Research demonstrates the malleability of memory; a dynamic process that occurs across development and can be influenced by internal and external frames. Narratives of past experiences represent one modality of understanding how memories are influenced by these frames. The present experimental study examines how memories of bullying are affected by two distinct yet common cultural frames. College students ( n = 92) were randomly assigned to one of two groups; one with a definition of bullying framing the experience in terms of resilience and one framing it in terms of negative psychosocial effects. Participants then wrote about a remembered experience with bullying. The researchers coded the narratives for coping strategies used in response to bullying as well as for positive or negative emotion words and story endings. The results demonstrated statistically significant differences between groups in the ways bullying experiences were remembered and described. Participants in the Resiliency Group more often had positive endings to their bullying narratives and used more coping skills and positive emotion words overall. The implications of a subtle frame influencing memories of bullying and its relation to development, identity, social order, peer relationships, and resilience are discussed.

Emotion Word Use by Adolescents Who Stutter: An Exploratory Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Corrin G. Richels ◽  
Rogge Jessica
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Conversational Speech ◽  
Word Count ◽  
Word Use ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
Linguistic Inquiry ◽  
Positive Valence ◽  
Analyze Data

Purpose: Deficits in the ability to use emotion vocabulary may result in difficulties for adolescents who stutter (AWS) and may contribute to disfluencies and stuttering. In this project, we aimed to describe the emotion words used during conversational speech by AWS. Methods: Participants were 26 AWS between the ages of 12 years, 5 months and 15 years, 11 months-old (n=4 females, n=22 males). We drew personal narrative samples from the UCLASS database. We used Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software to analyze data samples for numbers of emotion words. Results: Results indicated that the AWS produced significantly higher numbers of emotion words with a positive valence. AWS tended to use the same few positive emotion words to the near exclusion of words with negative emotion valence. Conclusion: A lack of diversity in emotion vocabulary may make it difficult for AWS to engage in meaningful discourse about negative aspects of being a person who stutters

scholarly journals Emotion Regulation Predicts Everyday Emotion Experience and Social Function in Schizophrenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin K. Moran ◽  
Adam J. Culbreth ◽  
Deanna M. Barch
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Linear Modeling ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategy

While recent evidence has pointed to disturbances in emotion regulation strategy use in schizophrenia, few studies have examined how these regulation strategies relate to emotionality and social behavior in daily life. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we investigated the relationship between emotion regulation, emotional experience, and social interaction in the daily lives of individuals with schizophrenia. Participants ( N = 30) used mobile phones to complete online questionnaires reporting their daily emotional experience and social interaction. Participants also completed self-report measures of habitual emotion regulation. Hierarchical linear modeling revealed that self-reported use of cognitive reappraisal and savoring of emotional experiences were related to greater positive emotion in daily life. In contrast, self-reported suppression was related to greater negative emotion, reduced positive emotion, and reduced social interaction in daily life. These findings suggest that individual differences in habitual emotion regulation strategy usage have important relationships to everyday emotional and social experiences in schizophrenia.

Session 3: Goal Setting; Weighing and Measuring

2016 ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Evan M. Forman ◽  
Meghan L. Butryn
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Caloric Intake ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Total Caloric Intake ◽  
Food And Beverages ◽  
Over Time

This chapter (Session 3) focuses on teaching clients how to set effective weight loss goals by choosing goals that are reasonable, active, short term, and time limited. Methods of evaluating goals are presented, such as tracking progress over time and sharing goals with others. This chapter also discusses the importance of weighing and measuring food and beverages by using measuring utensils or prepackaged meal options to promote accurate recording of total caloric intake.

scholarly journals Concurrent and longitudinal associations of peers’ acceptance with emotion and effortful control in kindergarten

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciel M. Hernández ◽  
Nancy Eisenberg ◽  
Carlos Valiente ◽  
Anjolii Diaz ◽  
Sarah K. VanSchyndel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Peer Acceptance ◽  
Panel Models ◽  
Longitudinal Associations ◽  
Bidirectional Associations ◽  
Peer Nominations ◽  
Over Time

The purpose of the study was to evaluate bidirectional associations between peer acceptance and both emotion and effortful control during kindergarten ( N = 301). In both the fall and spring semesters, we obtained peer nominations of acceptance, measures of positive and negative emotion based on naturalistic observations in school (i.e., classroom, lunch/recess), and observers’ reports of effortful control (i.e., inhibitory control, attention focusing) and emotions (i.e., positive, negative). In structural equation panel models, peer acceptance in fall predicted higher effortful control in spring. Effortful control in fall did not predict peer acceptance in spring. Negative emotion predicted lower peer acceptance across time for girls but not for boys. Peer acceptance did not predict negative or positive emotion over time. In addition, we tested interactions between positive or negative emotion and effortful control predicting peer acceptance. Positive emotion predicted higher peer acceptance for children low in effortful control.

scholarly journals Investigating the use of electronic wellbeing diaries completed within a psychoeducation programme for university students: Longitudinal text analysis study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myles-Jay Anthony Linton ◽  
Sarah Jelbert ◽  
Judi Kidger ◽  
Richard Morris ◽  
Lucy Biddle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Generalized Least Squares ◽  
University Education ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
Emotional Tone ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits

BACKGROUND Concern about the mental health and wellbeing of students in university education continues to mount. Psychoeducation has the potential to support students experiencing varying levels of distress and help meet the demand for support, however there is a need to understand how these programmes are used and experienced. Online diaries are a particularly useful activity for psychoeducation due to their therapeutic benefits, ability to capture naturalistic data relevant to wellbeing, and appropriateness for computerized text analysis methods. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine how university students use electronic diaries within a psychoeducation programme designed to enhance mental wellbeing (Science of Happiness Course). METHODS The Science of Happiness course was administered to 154 undergraduate students within a university setting (United Kingdom). Online diaries were collected from students for a total of 9 weeks. Baseline wellbeing data were collected using the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS). The percentage of negative and positive emotion words used in diaries (emotional tone) and use of words from 5 life domains (social, work, money, health, and leisure) was calculated using the LIWC2015 software. Random effects (generalized least squares) regression models were estimated in STATA 16 to examine the to examine how far time, diary characteristics, demographics and baseline wellbeing predict the emotion tone of diary entries. RESULTS A total of 149 students participated in the diary study, producing 1124 individual diary entries. Compliance to the diary task peaked in week 1 (93%) and was at its lowest in week 3 (72%). Compared to week 1, diaries were significantly more positive in their emotional tone during week 5 (mean difference 23.90, 95% CI: 16.89, 30.90) and week 6 (26.62, 95% CI: 19.35, 33.88) when students were tasked with writing about gratitude and their strengths. Across weeks, moderate and high baseline SWEMWBS scores were associated with a higher percentage of positive emotion words in diaries (increases compared with low SWEMWBS scoring students were 5.03 (95% CI: 0.08, 9.98) and 7.48 (95% CI: 1.84, 13.12) respectively). At week 1, the diaries of students with the highest levels of baseline SWEMWBS (82.92, 95% CI: 73.08, 92.76) were noticeably more emotionally positive on average than the diaries of students with the lowest levels of baseline SWEMWBS (59.38, 95% CI: 51.02, 67.73). Diaries largely focused on the use of social words. The emotional tone of diary entries was positively related to use of leisure (3.56, 95% CI: 2.28, 4.85), social (0.74, 95% CI: 0.21, 1.27), and inversely to health words (-1.96, 95% CI: -3.70, -0.22). CONCLUSIONS We found evidence for short-term task specific spikes in the emotional positivity of online diary entries, and recommend future studies examine the possibility of longer-term impacts on the writing and wellbeing of students. With student wellbeing in mind, universities should ensure leisure and social activities are facilitated and encouraged.

Session 3: Goal Setting; Weighing and Measuring

2016 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Evan M. Forman ◽  
Meghan L. Butryn
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Caloric Intake ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Total Caloric Intake ◽  
Food And Beverages ◽  
Over Time

This chapter (Session 3) focuses on teaching clients how to set effective weight loss goals by choosing goals that are reasonable, active, short term, and time limited. Methods of evaluating goals are presented, such as tracking progress over time and sharing goals with others. This chapter also discusses the importance of weighing and measuring food and beverages by using measuring utensils or prepackaged meal options to promote accurate recording of total caloric intake.

Is Donald Trump’s Presidential Election Victory a Surprise According to Twitter Data?

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 484
Author(s):  
Prof. Dr. Ayşe OĞUZLAR ◽  
Yusuf Murat KIZILKAYA
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Emotion Expression ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Positive Feeling ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Presidential Election

NodeXL Pro is a software developed for network analysis and visualization. NodeXL Pro connects to twitter and extracts tweets about the topics that are set, and makes various analyzes with these tweets. In this study, during the US presidential election held on November 8, 2016, the tweets about the candidates were handled and sentiment analysis was performed on these twitters. When you look at tags, on November 8, 2016, the most popular tags on twitter were; hillaryclinton and trump. Instantaneous; hillaryclinton’s twits number were 24407, compared to trump labeled twets number were 4132. When tweets under both labels were examined, it was seen that the majority of the twitters did not have words with emotional expression. On the other hand, hillaryclinton labeled tweets; 1761 positive emotion words were found and 828 negative emotion words were detected. It is known that Trump had focused on social media throughout the campaign period. Although the instant twet number of the trump tag was less than the hillaryclinton tag, the number of words expressing positive emotion was 5411 and the number of words expressing negative emotion was 1659 in these twets. For Hillary Clinton, the ratio of the number positive emotion words to the number of negative emotion expression words was 2,12, about Trump while the rate of the number of positive emotion words to negative emotion words was 3.26 in tweets. In hillaryclinton-tagged tweets, with the most popular positive words; Proud, love, worked, win and wins, most popular negative words; Hate, collapse, corruption, lies and f..k. In trump-tagged, for the most popular positive; "wins, win, defeat, good, trust, amazing, supporter and work" words, for the most popular negatively; "badly, refuses, lost, f..k, hell, loses and dump" words were the most common words. When word pairs are examined; The hillaryclinton word was used in combination with the most potsword (612 times) and the word with beyonce (603 times). Again, in the twets with hillaryclinton tag positively emotional sentences the "proud" and "same" words had been used together (139 times), "worked" and "toward" words (130 times) . In twitler expressing negative emotion; The words "collapse" and hillaryclintons have been used together (29 times), "corruption" and "looks" (28 times), "lies" and "vote" words (19 times). Trump tagged twets; The trump word was mostly used; with the Donald word (563 times), vote word (198 times) and wins word (169 times). When you look at the tweets that were triggered by the Trump tag and express a positive feeling; Most of the words "trump" and "wins" (169 times), "trump" and "supporters" had been used together (123 times). When you review negative tweets that are trump labeled; The words "refuses" and "allow" (57 times), "hell" and "out" (43 times) were used together. Despite the fact that when trump and hillaryclinton-tagged twits were emotionally analyzed, the number of tweets about Trump was much less than the number of tweets about Clinton. It seems that, the number of positive emotion expression words in tweets about trump were too much in terms of the number of positive emotion words in tweets about Clinton. It is seen that the words that express positive and negative emotions about Trump and Clinton are generally very different from each other.

scholarly journals Job Insecurity and Employee Engagement: A Moderated Dual Path Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 10081
Author(s):  
Shengxian Yu ◽  
Xiaoxiao Gong ◽  
Na Wu
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Perceived Insider Status ◽  
The Relationship

In a new stage of booming platform economy, improving the employees’ job security is the key factor to ensure the sustainable development of a platform organization. Based on the cognitive behavior theory, this study introduces the perceived insider status as the moderator variable, and constructs the process mechanism model of job insecurity on employee engagement. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between job insecurity, emotional response and employee engagement, and provide suggestions for reducing job insecurity and improving employee engagement. Using a 2-wave time-lagged survey data of 341 workers in China firms, data were collected with a self-report questionnaire and analyzed with the statistical package for the social science (AMOS, SPSS). The research result found a negative relationship between job insecurity and employee engagement, and that this negative relationship was mediated by negative emotion or positive emotion. Furthermore, perceived insider status moderated the relationship between job insecurity and positive emotion or negative emotion; the higher the perceived insider status is, the weaker the negative impact of job insecurity on positive emotion and the weaker the positive impact on negative emotion. The research results provide theoretical guidance for organizations to improve employee engagement and help to strengthen the importance of organizations to employees’ job insecurity.

scholarly journals THE ISSUE OF ADHERENCE TO TREATMENT OF OBESE PATIENTS IN COMBINATION WITH NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Vadym P. Shypulin ◽  
Nataliia G. Melnyk
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Weight Loss Program ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Moderate Physical Activity ◽  
Adherence To Treatment ◽  
Strong Negative Correlation ◽  
Alcoholic Fatty Liver ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Group 1

The aim – to study the effect of adherence to treatment in patients with obesity in combination with NAFLD on the effectiveness of treatment of NAFLD Materials that methods. 93 patients with obesity 1,2,3 degrees (BMI = 30-44.9 kg \ m2) in combination with NAFLD were examined. The patients were divided into two groups by randomization. They were offered a comprehensive weight loss program consisting of 5 visits over 12 weeks. The comprehensive weight loss program included: a reduction in the energy diet by 500 kcal from physiological daily energy expenditure and a moderate physical activity of 150-200 min per week. The patients of the first group adhered to the comprehensive weight loss program and received pioglitazone 15 mg / day. Patients of the second group adhered only to comprehensive weight loss program. We studied adherence to treatment in two groups of patients using self-report questionnare. The survey on Obesity WGO recommendations was also conducted. All patients underwent anthropometric measurements, laboratory and instrumental examination. Results. The comparative analysis revealed that patients with obesity and NAFLD in group 1, who followed a comprehensive weight loss program and received pioglitazone at a daily dose of 15 mg, had significantly better adherence rates (70.4%) (p <0, 05) compared with patients in Group 2 (59.6%) who followed only a comprehensive weight loss program. It was found that in patients of group 1, controlled attenuation parameter had a strong negative correlation with the level of adherence to treatment (r = -0,71), compared with patients in group 2, where there was an medium negative correlation (r = -0.56). It was found that the level of adherence to treatment had a medium negative correlation with the number of previous attempts to lose weight (r = -0.52) and the duration of obesity (r = -0.49). Conclusions. Patients who received pioglitazone 15 mg / day in addition to comprehensive weight loss program were likely to have better adherence rates and, as a consequence, a more significant decrease in steatosis. It is revealed that the level of adherence to treatment depends on the number of previous attempts to lose weight and the duration of obesity.

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