Affect and satisfaction time dependency: An experience sampling study

  • Petra Anić ,
  • Marko Tončić
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  • Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
mtoncic@ffri.uniri.hr

Received date: 21 Feb 2023

Accepted date: 25 Mar 2024

Published date: 20 Mar 2024

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2024 2024 The Authors. PsyCh Journal published by Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to test the time dependency between affect and satisfaction on a momentary level. Ninety-eight students participated in the study, using the experience sampling method. Affect and satisfaction scales were administered five times a day for 7 days via handheld devices, sampling the whole awake period with ratings approximately 3–4 h apart. The aim of this study was to examine the cross-correlation between affect and satisfaction at the intra-individual level and to test their temporal consistency via lagged cross-correlations. On average, satisfaction was robustly associated with positive affect (PA; mean correlation 0.50) and negative affect (NA; mean correlation −0.38). The correlation of satisfaction with affect factors showed a consistent temporal dependency. Lag (i.e., the shift of one time series with respect to another) significantly affected the magnitude of the correlation coefficients of satisfaction with PA and NA (explaining almost half of the correlation variance). A significant affect–satisfaction cross-correlation can be found when no lag is present. The introduction of a lag reduces the affect–satisfaction cross-correlation to virtually zero. Research suggests that affect and satisfaction overlap at the momentary level, and the results of this study imply that they are also time-dependent. These findings corroborate the idea that momentary satisfaction judgments are partially based on available emotional information, both in terms of intensity and temporal consistency.

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Petra Anić , Marko Tončić . Affect and satisfaction time dependency: An experience sampling study[J]. Psych Journal, 2024 , 13(3) : 456 -464 . DOI: 10.1002/pchj.763

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