Long-term stability of aggregated state emotions does not significantly differ from that of self-reported trait emotions over one- and two-year spans¶

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q3 i? Autocorrelations of aggregated states across one-year and two-year spans were descriptively smaller than those of self-reported traits but did not differ significantly. → Keller 2025

Evidence¶

Keller 2025¶

Keller, M. M., Yanagida, T., Lüdtke, O., & Goetz, T. (2025). How Similar Are Students' Aggregated State Emotions to Their Self-Reported Trait Emotions? Results from a Measurement Burst Design Across Three School Years. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-09995-1

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Autocorrelation analysis of the three-wave measurement burst study (N = 161, imputed data), comparing 1-year and 2-year stability of aggregated states versus traits per emotion. The article reports the ranges and that the measures were "overall found to not significantly differ".

"Autocorrelations for aggregated states (ranging from 0.408 to 0.561 for the 1-year spans, and from 0.332 to 0.452 for the two-year span) were compared to those of self-reported traits (ranging from 0.493 to 0.590 for 1-year and 0.411 to 0.499 for 2-year spans) and overall found to not significantly differ."

Discussion¶

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