Bursts of Self-Conscious Emotions in the Daily Lives of Emerging Adults

David E. Conroy, Nilam Ram, Aaron L. Pincus, Amanda L. Rebar

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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 8 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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)290-313
Number of pages24
JournalSelf and Identity
Volume14
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 4 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Psychology

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