title: Bursts of Self-Conscious Emotions in the Daily Lives of Emerging Adults.
abstract: Self-conscious emotions play a role in regulating daily achievement strivings, social behavior, and health, but little is known about the processes underlying their daily manifestation. Emerging adults (n = 182) completed daily diaries for eight days and multilevel models were estimated to evaluate whether, how much, and why their emotions varied from day-to-day. Within-person variation in authentic pride was normally-distributed across people and days whereas the other emotions were burst-like and characterized by zero-inflated, negative binomial distributions. Perceiving social interactions as generally communal increased the odds of hubristic pride activation and reduced the odds of guilt activation; daily communal behavior reduced guilt intensity. Results illuminated processes through which meaning about the self-in-relation-to-others is constructed during a critical period of development.
authors: Department of Preventive Medicine and Center for Behavior and Health, Northwestern University.
authors: David E
authors: DE
authors: Conroy
authors: Department of Human Development & Family Studies.
authors: Nilam
authors: N
authors: Ram
authors: Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University.
authors: Aaron L
authors: AL
authors: Pincus
authors: Central Queensland University.
authors: Amanda L
authors: AL
authors: Rebar
keywords: emotion regulation; intraindividual; motivation; social