Similarly, days characterized by more unsupportive interactions were related to higher levels of
daily negative mood (β = 2.79, p <.0001).
Conversely, unsupportive interactions and disruptive child behaviors were hypothesized to predict lower levels of daily positive and greater
daily negative mood.
The previously described multilevel models were used to test our hypothesis that daily received instrumental and emotional support would predict more daily positive mood and less
daily negative mood, and that the number of support services received would predict lower levels of
daily negative mood.
For example, Kleiboer and colleagues (2007) found caregivers for individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) who received more daily negative interactions experienced higher levels of
daily negative mood.
• Maladaptive: escape, blaming, withdrawal, and helplessness coping negatively related with daily positive mood and positively related with
daily negative mood.
For example,
daily negative mood has been found to predict depressive symptoms (Cohen, Gunthert, Butler, O'Neill, & Tolpin, 2005), whereas daily positive mood has been found to buffer the effects of daily stress on depression (Wichers et al., 2007) and to predict «human flourishing» (Fredrickson & Losada, 2005).
A supplementary finding was that mothers reported higher levels of
daily negative mood as compared to fathers.
As expected, disruptive child behaviors were positively associated with higher levels of
daily negative mood.
Indeed, contrary to predictions, support services moderated the stress — negative mood relationship such that more support services and greater daily stress predicted increased
daily negative mood.
Support services often require parents to organize their schedules, interact with others, and bring their children to the appointment; juggling these added demands may be stressful and lead to higher levels of
daily negative mood.
Furthermore, the relationship between disruptive child behaviors and negative mood was moderated by daily parenting stress; on more stressful days, higher levels of disruptive behaviors predicted higher levels of
daily negative mood.
Higher levels of disruptive child behaviors predicted more
daily negative mood (β = 0.05, p <.01), but the association between disruptive behaviors and daily positive mood was not significant.
Moderating predictions were more tentative; it was predicted that instrumental social support and support services would buffer the relationship between daily parenting stress and
daily negative mood, whereas unsupportive interactions and disruptive child behaviors would intensify the effect of daily parenting stress on
daily negative mood.
Finally, results failed to support predictions that support services received would be inversely associated with
daily negative mood.
Greater
daily negative mood was associated with less emotional support and more parenting stress, unsupportive interactions, and disruptive child behaviors.
More support services and elevated levels of daily stress predicted more
daily negative mood.
Based on the existing literature, it was predicted that higher levels of emotional and instrumental social support and more support services would predict higher levels of daily positive mood and less
daily negative mood.
Not exact matches
Everybody will probably experience a certain degree of general moodiness at some points of their life, but stress - induced
mood swings can be severe and drastic and have a substantial
negative effect on health and
daily function.
In a research article titled «Prosocial Behavior Helps Mitigate the
Negative Effects of Stress in Everyday Life,» participants who engaged in «other - focused» behavior, such as holding a door, asking someone if they needed help, and lending a hand, reported better
moods and lower
daily stress levels than those who didn't engage in helping behavior.
Daily variation in parental engagement and
negative mood: Implications for emotionally supportive and conflictual interactions.
Characteristics and behaviours associated with emotional disturbance and / or behavioural problems may include: aggressive or anti-social behaviour; inattentiveness; distractibility and impulsiveness; impaired social interactions; a general inability to cope with the routine of
daily tasks; obsessive and repetitive behaviours; attention - seeking behaviours such as
negative interactions or a poor attitude towards work, peers or teachers; and depressed behaviours such as withdrawal, anxiety and
mood swings.
Indeed, greater intra-individual fluctuations in
negative affect, conceptualized as dysregulated
mood, predict increased risk for adolescent substance use at the
daily level [31] and also predict growth in drug use over time [32], as well as more significant symptoms of impairment [33].
Higher
daily problems predicted lower happiness and higher
negative affect, indicating that the more
daily problems a young person experienced, the poorer their average
daily mood was.
Researchers have documented a cascade of
negative life events for the service member whose combat - related stress and post-traumatic symptoms may affect sleep patterns,
mood, arousal level, irritability, and ability to tolerate
daily domestic transactions, and for the spouse who may be similarly symptomatic or hyper - reactive due to the «pile up» of stressors experienced on the «home front» over extended and multiple deployments (Galovski and Lyons 2004; Lester et al. 2010, 2011a; Sherman et al. 2005).
Consistent with our predictions, disruptive child behaviors moderated the
daily parenting stress —
negative mood relationship (β = 0.01, p <.001), but not the
daily parenting stress — positive
mood relationship.
In the current study, statistical analyses evaluated the main and moderating effects of variables measured repeatedly at the within - person level (stress, social support, and unsupportive interactions) and variables measured at the between - person level (disruptive child behaviors, and support services) on
daily positive and
negative mood.
Conversely, Kleiboer et al. (2006) did not find received instrumental support to predict
daily positive
mood, nor did they find received emotional or instrumental support to predict
negative mood.
This is the first study to use a repeated measurement design to investigate the direct and moderating effects of contextual factors on
daily positive and
negative mood.
To advance our understanding of contextual processes such as received social support and unsupportive interactions, it appears beneficial to use a research design that repeatedly assesses
daily occurring events (e.g., stress, social support) and outcomes (i.e.,
negative and positive
mood) over time, coupled with a statistical approach that permits the evaluation of within - person relations.
Aggregating across participants and the 24 time points,
daily mood averaged 28.73 (SD = 9.98) for positive affect and 17.47 (SD = 7.65) for
negative affect, parenting stress averaged 3.08 (SD = 1.85), supportive interactions averaged 2.01 (SD = 1.09) for emotional support and 1.30 (SD = 1.22) for instrumental support, and unsupportive interactions averaged.23 (SD =.54).
Furthermore, it is possible that received social support influences momentary or
daily affective states, such as
negative and positive
mood, and the accumulation of these
daily states predicts psychological distress and well - being (Rook, 2001).
Daily parenting stress significantly predicted lower levels of positive
mood (β = − 0.78, p <.0001) and higher levels of
negative mood (β = 1.52, p <.0001).
Objective To examine the extent to which social support, unsupportive interactions, support services, and disruptive child behaviors predict
daily positive and
negative mood in parents of children with autism.
The lack of association between
daily instrumental support and
negative mood may reflect the fact that simply providing help is insufficient.
Underlying these difficulties may be the degree to which
daily romantic transactions potentiate fluctuations in
negative mood.