Interindividual Differences and Intraindividual Variability in Emotional Well-being: an Examination of Gender, Time Perspective and Emotion Regulat
Interindividual Differences and Intraindividual Variability in Emotional Well-being: an Examination of Gender, Time Perspective and Emotion Regulat

Summary/Abstract: This study examined Taiwanese undergraduates’ trajectories of emotional well-being, positiveaffect, and negative affect over a 16-week period within one semester. The effect of theirdifferences in gender and time perspective profiles on intraindividual variability of weeklyaffect and associations between time trends of affects and use of two emotional regulationstrategies, i.e., reappraisal and suppression, were also investigated. Longitudinal data from 96undergraduates were analyzed by hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). With time passing, thehabitual use of reappraisal was related to the increase of emotional well-being and positiveaffect and related to the decline of negative affect. By contrast, habitually using suppressionwas related to an increase of negative affect over time. The main findings also indicatedthat individuals with balanced time perspective had higher levels of emotional well-beingcompared to those without balanced time perspective at the baseline of the study. Gender andtime perspective profiles were also demonstrated as moderators in the relationship betweenchanges in using emotional regulation strategies on emotional well-being.

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