Negative emotions, particularly anxiety and boredom, show greater day-to-day stability than positive emotions and anger during exam preparation¶

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q2 i? Anxiety and boredom exhibited greater day-to-day stability (higher autoregressive coefficients, lower rMSSD, and wSD) than positive emotions and anger. → Berweger 2024

Evidence¶

Berweger 2024¶

Berweger, B., Breitwieser, J., Kracke, B., Brod, G., & Dietrich, J. (2024). Daily Affective-Motivational Experiences During Exam Preparation: Feedback Loops, Stability, and Change Over Time. PsychArchives preprint. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/10953

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Time series analysis of medical students' daily achievement emotions during the 40-day exam preparation period. The article reports that "negative emotions, particularly anxiety and boredom, exhibited greater day-to-day stability" on all three dynamic measures, with no effect sizes printed.

"negative emotions, particularly anxiety and boredom, exhibited greater day-to-day stability (higher autoregressive coefficients, lower rMSSD, and wSD) compared to positive emotions and anger."

Discussion¶

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