Negative Emotional Consequences Research Articles

Expectation and Complaint: Online Consumer Complaint Behavior in COVID-19 Isolation.

PurposeThis study aims to articulate the nature of consumer complaining behavior (CCB) by analyzing the mechanism and characteristics of online CCB in COVID-19 isolated environment.Patients and MethodsFor the purpose, this study collected data via a web-based questionnaire survey from 408 consumers in Shanghai, China during COVID-19 isolation. Through building and analyzing a structural equation model that consists of six latent variables such as perceived service quality, perceived product quality, customer satisfaction, negative emotion, customer complaint; the study analyzed the basic characteristics of CCB, and focused on the moderation test of consumer expectation to validate its important role in consumer decision-making behavior.ResultsFirst, compared to perceived service quality, perceived product quality has a stronger influence on customer satisfaction and has a weaker influence on negative emotions in the COVID-19 isolated environment. Second, the total influence of perceived product quality on customer complaints is stronger than that of perceived service quality. Third, the direct impact of negative emotions on customer complaints was much stronger than the effect of customer satisfaction on customer complaints. Meanwhile, it can also act as a mediating variable to make customer satisfaction have an additional indirect effect on complaints. Finally, the study also found that consumer expectation can reinforce the influences of customer satisfaction on negative emotions and customer complaints, while it weakens the effect of negative emotions on customer complaints.ConclusionThis study suggests that the classic CCB factors still exert a stable influence on customer complaints through cognitive and emotional response pathways, but the influence difference is obvious in the COVID-19 isolated environment. And the influence processes are significantly moderated by consumer expectation level. Enterprises should conduct more targeted marketing interactions, according to these CCB characteristics.

An ecological momentary assessment study to investigate individuals' reactions to perceived social exclusion

Most psychological research on social exclusion mainly focused on maximizing internal validity (e.g., controlling for confounding variables). However, maximizing external validity to produce generalizable knowledge about real-world experiences becomes increasingly essential. In the present study (N = 89), we adopted an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) design to track exclusionary experiences and their impact on psychological distress over 15 consecutive days. We tested the mediating effects of positive and negative emotions on the link between daily exclusionary experiences and psychological distress, examining the moderating role of experiential avoidance (EA). Results confirmed a large effect of social exclusion on distress mediated by positive and negative emotions. However, EA did not moderate the exclusion-distress link but was, unexpectedly, found to moderate the exclusion-positive emotions relationship. Specifically, this relationship was stronger for low (vs. high) levels of EA, indicating that adopting EA in response to perceived exclusion may provide a protective function from blunted positive emotions. The present study suggests the usefulness of investigating the occurrence and reactions to the daily experiences of social exclusion, going beyond the sole reliance on experimental manipulations, especially to explore the role of individual differences in working towards a more integrated theoretical model of exclusion.

Critically Ill Patients: Family Experiences of Interfacility Transfers From Rural to Urban Centers and Impact on Family Relationships.

A critical illness event is intensely stressful for family members and can lead to negative psychological, emotional, social and financial consequences. In geographically rural areas, critically ill patients may require an interfacility transfer to an urban centre for advanced critical care services. In this context, research suggests that these family members from rural areas experience additional burdens, yet little is known about these experiences. An interpretive phenomenological approach was used to explore lived experiences of family members from rural areas whose critically ill relative undergoes an interfacility transfer to an urban centre for advanced critical care services. Participants described feelings of vulnerability in the urban centre, the need to protect the critically ill patient and other relatives, maintaining responsibilities at home, navigating family relationships, and a loss of connection during the transfer window. These findings may better position nurses to address family members' stress and anxiety during this experience.

Examining the effects of negative emotions on review helpfulness: The moderating role of product price

Negative emotional contents have been demonstrated to be persuasive when consumers judge review helpfulness across many existing studies. Drawing on emotions as social information (EASI) theory, signaling theory, and cognitive appraisal theory, we extended the current understanding of this underlying mechanism by considering the moderating role of the product price, an underestimated environmental signal. We focused on two negative emotions prominent in review content: anger and anxiety. A data sample of 73,408 reviews of businesses with three different price levels from Yelp.com was analyzed to explore how anger and anxiety embedded in online reviews impact consumers’ perceptions of review helpfulness and how product price moderates the relationship between these two emotions and review helpfulness. The results of linear regression analyses show that anger and anxiety positively impact review helpfulness in most cases, and product price moderates their relationships. Furthermore, our findings suggest that the positive effects of both discrete emotions on review helpfulness decrease as the price increases, and this influence is more pronounced in an angry emotion. Our findings advance the knowledge of discrete emotions on review helpfulness and provide practical insights for online retailers and third-party platforms to manage posted reviews efficiently.

The emotional significant negative events and wellbeing of student teachers during initial teacher training: The case of physical education

Teaching is a demanding job and the aim of the present study was to explore the emotional experiences and wellbeing levels (burnout and vigor) of Physical Education (PE) student teachers in comparison with student teachers of other subjects. In all, 167 student teachers (99 in PE and 68 in other subjects) described two significant professional negative events experienced during the school placement. They also reported the frequency of occurrence of these events, the level of unpleasant emotions related to the events, and their scores of burnout and vigor. The negative emotional events were encoded following an inductive approach and five categories emerged: Student rules violations, Collaborative issues, Physical integrity risks, Organizational issues, and Lack of student motivation. The Chi-square analyses revealed a different distribution in the negative events according to the subject taught, especially including an overrepresentation of Lack of student motivation and Physical integrity risks for PE student teachers and Collaborative issues for other-subjects student teachers. Moreover, Mann-Whitney U-tests revealed a similar frequency of negative emotional events whatever the subject taught, but a lower intensity of unpleasant emotions, lower physical fatigue and higher scores of physical strength for PE student teachers in comparison with those of other subjects. The present findings confirmed that the specificities of PE lead to singular significant negative events for PE students during initial training. Finally, the health outcomes (intensity of unpleasant emotions, burnout and vigor) suggest that PE teachers have developed specific resources to cope with school constraints, probably in relation to their sport experiences.

Investigating the effects of different levels and types of construction noise on emotions using EEG data

Construction noise can affect human health and wellbeing through its negative effects on emotions. This study used EEG data to investigate the effects of different types and levels of construction noise on emotions. 23 participants were exposed to different types and levels of construction noise. Two different power spectral analysis, including the traditional approach and parametrizing neural power spectra, were used. The participants' responses regarding the effects of the noise conditions on their emotions in terms of annoyance and stress were also recorded using a questionnaire. To statistically analyze the data, linear mixed models analysis was employed in this study. The subjective data obtained from the questionnaires showed significant effects of the noise on the annoyance and stress perceived by the participants. The analysis of the EEG data also showed significant effects of different types and levels of construction noise on the brain signals. We found that different noise types and levels had significant effects on overall brain signal amplitude. The frontal lobe analysis results revealed that saw and jackhammer had the most negative emotional effects. The temporal lobe reacted differently to the noise types with different acoustic characteristics. The findings of this study will aid to identify the types and levels of construction noise with the most negative effects on human emotions. This would enable us to revisit occupational and environmental noise regulations to protect construction noise receivers against the noise levels and types with the most negative health effects.

Early stressful experiences are associated with reduced neural responses to naturalistic emotional and social content in children

How do children’s experiences relate to their naturalistic emotional and social processing? Because children can struggle with tasks in the scanner, we collected fMRI data while 4-to-11-year-olds watched a short film with positive and negative emotional events, and rich parent-child interactions (n = 70). We captured broad, normative stressful experiences by examining socioeconomic status (SES) and stressful life events, as well as children’s more proximal experiences with their parents. For a sub-sample (n = 30), parenting behaviors were measured during a parent-child interaction, consisting of a picture book, a challenging puzzle, and free play with novel toys. We characterized positive parenting behaviors (e.g., warmth, praise) and negative parenting behaviors (e.g., harsh tone, physical control). We found that higher SES was related to greater activity in medial orbitofrontal cortex during parent-child interaction movie events. Negative parenting behaviors were associated with less activation of the ventral tegmental area and cerebellum during positive emotional events. In a region-of-interest analysis, we found that stressful life events and negative parenting behaviors were associated with less activation of the amygdala during positive emotional events. These exploratory results demonstrate the promise of using movie fMRI to study how early experiences may shape emotional, social, and motivational processes.

Mediating Effects of Attitudes, Risk Perceptions, and Negative Emotions on Coping Behaviors

Based on the perspectives of social risk amplification and the knowledge-attitudes-practice model, this study aimed to test how the level of knowledge about COVID-19 and information sources can predict people's behavioral changes and to examine the effect mechanisms through the mediating roles of attitude, risk perception, and negative emotions in a survey of 498 older Chinese adults. The results showed that (1) older people had a lower level of factual knowledge regarding the variant strains and vaccines; (2) in the information sources-behavior, information sources had a critical influence on elderly individuals' coping behaviors; and (3) in the knowledge-behavior, factual knowledge had a significant effect on elderly individuals' coping behaviors. Specifically, for prevention behaviors, both risk perception and negative emotions played full mediating roles. The findings have significant implications for the development of an effective COVID-19 prevention program to older adults coping with pandemic conditions.

Effects of Methamphetamine and Narcotics on Sexual High-Risk Behaviors

Background: Methamphetamine is a highly addictive psychostimulant. Narcotics also reduce anxiety and aggression and create a kind of euphoria. These characteristics provide a special attraction for the abuse of these substances for sexual behaviors, and by that, high-risk sexual behaviors. Objectives: The current research intended to compare the impact of methamphetamine and narcotics on sexual high-risk behaviors. Patients and Methods: This comparative study was performed on 91 men (49 amphetamine and 42 narcotics abusers) from the patients of Yareegar Clinic in Tehran, Iran, within 2019 - 2021. A substance-influenced sexual behavior questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data were analyzed using the analysis of variance. Results: The results showed that the use of amphetamine and narcotics affect on sexual desire, function, and sexual pleasure (P < 0.001). The investigation of behaviors in the two groups showed significant differences between the two groups in increasing sexual desire, sexual pleasure, desire for sex in anonymous situations, and intimacy and eroticism in a relationship and reducing the negative emotional consequences of sexual behavior (P < 0.001). Conclusions: The use of amphetamines can provide a vicious cycle of arousal-desire by desire and intensification of sexual behaviors, thereby increasing the likelihood of the occurrence and spread of infectious disorders, a phenomenon that is also observed in the use of narcotics. By training sexual skills and making individuals more efficient and cognitive, they can be prevented from entering the aforementioned cycle.

The Effect of negative emotion on concentration through emotional regulation: mediated moderation of Metacognitive Awareness

The Effect of negative emotion on concentration through emotional regulation: mediated moderation of Metacognitive Awareness

The use of mobile apps and fitness trackers to promote healthy behaviors during COVID-19: A cross-sectional survey.

To examine i) the use of mobile apps and fitness trackers in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic to support health behaviors; ii) the use of COVID-19 apps; iii) associations between using mobile apps and fitness trackers, and health behaviors; iv) differences in usage amongst population subgroups. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted during June-September 2020. The survey was developed and reviewed independently by co-authors to establish face validity. Associations between using mobile apps and fitness trackers and health behaviors were examined using multivariate logistic regression models. Subgroup analyses were conducted using Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests. Three open-ended questions were included to elicit participants' views; thematic analysis was conducted. Participants included 552 adults (76.7% women; mean age: 38±13.6 years); 59.9% used mobile apps for health, 38.2% used fitness trackers, and 46.3% used COVID-19 apps. Users of mobile apps or fitness trackers had almost two times the odds of meeting aerobic physical activity guidelines compared to non-users (odds ratio = 1.91, 95% confidence interval 1.07 to 3.46, P = .03). More women used health apps than men (64.0% vs 46.8%, P = .004). Compared to people aged 18-44 (46.1%), more people aged 60+ (74.5%) and more people aged 45-60 (57.6%) used a COVID-19 related app (P < .001). Qualitative data suggest people viewed technologies (especially social media) as a 'double-edged sword': helping with maintaining a sense of normalcy and staying active and socially connected, but also having a negative emotional effect stemming from seeing COVID-related news. People also found that mobile apps did not adapt quickly enough to the circumstances caused by COVID-19. Use of mobile apps and fitness trackers during the pandemic was associated with higher levels of physical activity, in a sample of educated and likely health-conscious individuals. Future research is needed to understand whether the association between using mobile devices and physical activity is maintained in the long-term.

Sleep quality and associated factors among nurses working at comprehensive specialized hospitals in Northwest, Ethiopia.

BackgroundPoor sleep quality is common among nurses. This problem possibly results in negative emotional and psychological consequences in nurses which secondary affect their work performances. However, in Ethiopia, there is a paucity of information about poor sleep quality and associated factors among nurses. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of poor sleep quality and associated factors among nurses working at comprehensive specialized hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia.MethodsAn institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 542 nurses who worked at University of Gondar (UOG), Tibebe Ghion, Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospitals, Ethiopia, who were incorporated into the study through a simple random sampling technique from 1 May to 2 June 2021. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) with a cut score of above 5 was used to assess sleep quality using a structured self-administered questionnaire. Other tools used are Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21), Shift Work sleep disorders (SWSD), and Oslo-3 social support scales. Epi-Data version 3.1 was used for data entry and SPSS version 25 was used for data analysis. A multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to identify variables that have a significant association with poor sleep quality among nurse professionals. The degree of association was assessed using an odds ratio (OR) with a 95% confidence interval (CI) at a two-tailed p-value of <0.05.ResultsA total of 510 nurses were included in the study with a response rate of 94%. The study showed that the overall prevalence of poor sleep quality among nurses was 75.5% (95% CI (71.8, 79.1). Being female (AOR = 1.72:95% CI = 1.19, 2.28), depressive symptoms (AOR = 2.24:95% CI = 1.24, 3.85), anxiety symptoms (AOR = 2.12: 95% CI = 1.23, 3.62), stress (AOR = 2.85: 95% CI = 1.67, 4.82) and current alcohol drinking (AOR = 1.84 :95% CI = 1.27, 3.13) were significantly associated with poor sleep quality.ConclusionThe overall prevalence of poor sleep quality among nurses was high. Being female, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, stress, and current alcohol drinking had been significantly associated with poor sleep quality. Therefore, it is essential to institute effective intervention strategies emphasizing contributing factors to poor sleep quality.

Responses of the public towards the government in times of crisis.

We experimentally investigate how and when the public responds to government actions during times of crisis. Public reactions are shown to follow different processes, depending on whether government performs in exemplary or unsatisfactory ways to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 'how' question is addressed by proposing that negative moral emotions mediate public reactions to bad government actions, and positive moral emotions mediate reactions to good government actions. Tests of mediation are conducted while taking into account attitudes and trust in the government as rival hypotheses. The 'when' question is studied by examining self-regulatory moderators governing the experience of moral emotions and their effects. These include conspiracy beliefs, political ideology, attachment coping styles and collective values. A total of 357 citizens of a representative sample of adult Norwegians were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group, where complaining, putting pressure on the government and compliance to Covid-19 policies were dependent variables. The findings show that negative moral emotions mediate the effects of government doing badly on complaining and pressuring the government, with conspiracy beliefs moderating the experience of negative moral emotions and attachment coping moderating the effects of negative moral emotions. The results also show that positive moral emotions mediate the effects of government doing well on compliance with COVID-19 regulations, with political ideology moderating the experience of positive moral emotions and collective values moderating the effects of positive moral emotions.

Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) mechanisms of transdiagnostic polygenic risk for trajectories of depression: From early adolescence to adulthood.

There is substantial heterogeneity in the development of depression from adolescence into adulthood. Yet, little is known about the risk factors underlying its various patterns of development. For instance, despite the discovery of genetic variants for depression, these discoveries have not accounted for the high degree of genetic covariation between multiple disorders, nor have they been applied to disambiguate its heterogeneous developmental presentations. This study examined the association between a transdiagnostic polygenic score for psychopathology (p-factor PGS) and depression trajectories, spanning early adolescence into adulthood, in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 7,088). We examined whether subconstructs of the Research Domain Criteria's (RDoC) negative valence (i.e., negative emotionality), positive valence (i.e., novelty seeking), and cognitive systems (i.e., picture vocabulary) could explain how the p-factor PGS eventuates into the various pathways of depression. Four trajectories were identified: low depression (78.9%), low increasing (7.3%), high declining (8.2%), and early adult peaked (5.7%). The p-factor PGS was significantly higher in all depressive trajectories relative to the low-depression trajectory but was predictive of only the trajectory that showed increasing depression over time: low increasing. A specific indirect path emerged by which the association of p-factor PGS on early adult peaked and high-declining depression operated through the effects of negative emotionality but not picture vocabulary or novelty seeking. Findings reinforce the crucial role of development in genetically informed RDoC models of depression, because there appear to be distinct correlates and risk factors that underlie the various developmental pathways of depression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

The impact of anxiety and life quality on the mathematical performance of dyscalculic middle school children

Dyscalculia is a specific difficulty in learning mathematics that strongly influences activities of daily living that require skills such as counting and simple mathematical operations. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of negative emotions on mathematical performance in children with and without developmental dyscalculia using psychosocial tests, a quality of life test, an anxiety test and the Zareki-R mathematical performance test. This pilot study was realized on a sample of 20 children in the first year of secondary school (a group of 10 dyscalculic children and another group of 10 control children with an average age of 12.65 years). Descriptive statistics showed that dyscalculic children had low scores on all Zareki-R subtests. The Mann Whitney analysis revealed a significant difference between dyscalculic children and typically developing children on the Zareki-R subtests and the quality of life test, but no significance was found for the anxiety test. Analysis of the ANOVA by gender revealed no significant differences for the three tests, and the opposite for the ANOVA by age (F = 3.86, dll = 2, p ˂ 0.05). Using multiple linear regression, the subtests of physical quality of life, emotional quality of life and academic quality of life were significantly different for the two groups. In conclusion, the psychosocial quality of life and the high level of anxiety in dyscalculic children strongly influence their performance in mathematics.

Understanding the Role of Aesthetics and Price Fairness for Establishing Marketing Strategies in the Sports Bar Industry

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of aesthetics, price fairness, emotions, and behavioral intentions in the sports bar industry and to provide sports bar managers with practical strategies for maximizing the physical environment by employing aesthetics. Using data collected from 507 U.S. sports bar customers, structural equation model analysis was performed which supported the proposed effects of’ aesthetics on behavioral intentions via emotions. We also find that aesthetics and emotions play an important role in customers’ dining intentions in sports bars. Unlike existing studies arguing the significant effect of negative emotion on the perceived price-fairness, we found that the effect of negative emotion does not influence the perception of price-fairness of the consumers in the context of sports bar. Key theoretical and managerial implications for enhancing the patron’s positive valence emotions and aesthetic appeal are discussed.

Diabetes-related distress and its association with the complications of diabetes in Iran.

PurposeDiabetes-related distress (DRD) has negative emotional effects on the patients’ quality of life. This is while the condition often goes undiagnosed despite it being common among diabetic patients. This study investigated the prevalence of DRD and its association with diabetes complications among a group of Iranian type 2 diabetic patients (T2DM).MethodsThis descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 186 T2DM patients referred to a diabetes clinic in a teaching hospital from the beginning of May 2019 to the end of April 2020. Two questionnaires on disease-related information and diabetes distress screening scale (DDS) were filled out for each patient. The latter was divided into four domains, emotional burden (EB), diabetes-related interpersonal distress (ID), physician-related distress (PD), and regimen-related distress (RD). In addition to the frequency of DRD and its association with age, sex, body mass index (BMI), hypertension, hemoglobin A1C, duration of disease, and type of medication regimen (oral, insulin, or mix) along with the history of cardiovascular disease (CVDs), retinopathy, nephropathy, and diabetic foot were assessed.ResultsDRD was reported in 47% of the patients. Being female, old age, hypertension, high hemoglobin A1C levels, nephropathy, and retinopathy were significantly associated with DRD (P-value = < 0.001, 0.013, 0.014, 0.007, 0.001, and 0.004, respectively). The history of the diabetic foot had a significant relationship with PD and ID (P-value = 0.007 and < 0.001, respectively). Multivariate regression showed gender and the existence of complications to have a direct effect on the development of DRD.ConclusionDRD prevalence is relatively high and requires screening to identify and treat high-risk patients. Further studies are needed to study diabetes, its complications and their relation with DRD to help reduce such conditions and improve the patient’s quality of life.

The Impact of Mortality Salience, Negative Emotions and Cultural Values on Suicidal Ideation in COVID-19: A Conditional Process Model.

As suicides incurred by the COVID-19 outbreak keep happening in many countries, researchers have raised concerns that the ongoing pandemic may lead to “a wave of suicides” in society. Suicidal ideation (SI) is a critical factor in conducting suicide intervention and also an important indicator for measuring people’s mental health. Therefore, it is vital to identify the influencing factors of suicidal ideation and its psychological mechanism during the outbreak. Based on the terror management theory, in the present study we conducted a social media big data analysis to explore the joint effects of mortality salience (MS), negative emotions (NE), and cultural values on suicidal ideation in 337 regions on the Chinese mainland. The findings showed that (1) mortality salience was a positive predictor of suicidal ideation, with negative emotions acting as a mediator; (2) individualism was a positive moderator in the first half-path of the mediation model; (3) collectivism was a negative moderator in the first half-path of the mediation model. Our findings not only expand the application of the terror management theory in suicide intervention but provide some insights into post-pandemic mental healthcare. Timely efforts are needed to provide psychological interventions and counseling on outbreak-caused negative emotions in society. Compared with people living in collectivism-prevailing regions, those living in individualism-prevailing regions may be more vulnerable to mortality salience and negative emotions and need more social attention.

Bouncing Back: Coping After Being Cut From A Team

Each new season, youth athletes show up to team tryouts in hopes of making the team. However, there are only so many spots on the roster, and sometimes athletes get cut. Deselection, or getting cut, is the elimination of an athlete from a competitive sport team based on a coach’s decision. Deselection is an aspect of competitive sport that many youth athletes experience, and it can result in negative psychological, social and emotional consequences such as a lost sense of self, loss of friendships, and feelings of anxiety, embarrassment, and sadness. This article presents a study looking at how athletes (and their parents) coped with deselection from sport teams. The results explain some of the coping strategies youth athletes and their parents used together and how athletes can bounce back after getting cut.

LAND CIRCULATION, FARMERS' WAGE LEVEL, LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE BENEFITS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND SCALE MANAGEMENT: A STUDY ON THE CHANGES OF EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR BASED ON THE SURVEY DATA OF JIANGXI PROVINCE

LAND CIRCULATION, FARMERS' WAGE LEVEL, LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE BENEFITS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND SCALE MANAGEMENT: A STUDY ON THE CHANGES OF EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR BASED ON THE SURVEY DATA OF JIANGXI PROVINCE