Daily satisfaction as a joint function of positive and negative affect: Moderating effects of cognitive habits

• Main Author: AZIZ, Indra Alam Syah
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Daily satisfaction; Affective congruence; Positive affect; Negative affect; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/194; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1194&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The study aims to investigate the effects of individual differences in cognitive habits on the relation between affect and satisfaction in daily life. Specifically, this study aims to examine if individual differences in savouring, rumination and catastrophizing may moderate the effects of positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) on daily satisfaction judgments. 190 undergraduate students from Singapore Management University were recruited to participate in an experience sampling study in which they provided ratings of PA and NA across the day, as well as their end-of-day satisfaction levels over five days. Using multilevel modelling and response surface methodology, daily satisfaction levels was modelled as a joint function of daily-averaged, daytime and evening PA and NA, and their interaction with trait measures of savouring, rumination and catastrophizing to investigate potential moderating effects. The pattern of results suggests that when daily satisfaction judgments are modelled as a joint function of daily averaged PA and NA, the effects of PA and NA on satisfaction judgments appear to cancel out each other. Moderating effects of savouring, catastrophizing and rumination were only present inthe joint relation between daily satisfaction and daytime affect.