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EMOTION
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 139-149Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.1.139
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affect; emotion; diurnal rhythm; DRM
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To date, diurnal rhythms of emotions have been studied with real-time data collection methods mostly in relatively small samples. The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM), a new survey instrument that reconstructs the emotions of a day, is examined as a method for enabling large-scale investigations of rhythms. Diurnal cycles were observed for 12 emotion adjectives in 909 women over a working day. Bimodal patterns with peaks at noon and evenings were detected for positive emotions: peaks in negative emotions were found at mid-morning and mid-afternoon. A V-shaped pattern was found for fired and an inverted U-shaped pattern for competent. Several diurnal patterns from prior studies were replicated. The DRM appears to be a useful tool for the study of emotions.
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