Affect Theory Research Articles

A multilevel investigation of team relationship conflict and employee-level subjective career success

PurposeBased on affective event theory (AET), this study aims to unpack the association between team relationship conflict and employees’ subjective career success by examining the mediating role of negative emotions and the moderating role of emotional intelligence.Design/methodology/approachUsing Mplus 8.1, the study analyzes multi-level, multi-wave data collected from 288 employees in 51 teams across Pakistan.FindingsThe results indicate that team relationship conflict is negatively associated with employees’ subjective career success, both in terms of career satisfaction and job satisfaction. While employees’ negative emotions partially mediate this negative relationship, emotional intelligence moderates the association between team relationship conflict and negative emotions, such that individuals with higher emotional intelligence experience less negative emotions.Originality/valueThis study advances career research by demonstrating how and when team relationship conflict is related to employees’ subjective career success. It also extends current understanding of the mediating and moderating mechanisms behind the association between team relationship conflict and employees’ subjective career success.

Out of time: fantasising the French romantic hero in the Netflix era

ABSTRACT Netflix’s globally oriented French products are commercially bound to negotiate between producing locally legible and internationally acceptable gender types. This article spotlights variations in representing the French romantic hero – traditionally a gallant séducteur – to a global audience hypersensitive to notions of toxic masculinity in two post-#MeToo Netflix Original French romantic comedy narratives: the series Plan cœur/The Hook-Up Plan (2018–2021) and the film Je ne suis pas un homme facile/I Am Not an Easy Man (Eléonore Pourriat, 2018). Noting that Netflix is now the key export channel for French romcoms, the article draws primarily on textual analysis, while also leveraging psychoanalytic and affective theories, to argue that the platform’s impetus to make French masculinity in particular more widely palatable, and (so) appeal to emergent popular feminism, has the potential to reconfigure parameters of legitimate gender norms, French and beyond.

HOW CARE WORKERS’ TURNOVER INTENTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH WORKPLACE VIOLENCE?: THE ROLE OF STRESS AND JOB SATISFACTION

Abstract This study examines the impact of workplace violence experienced by long-term care workers from the care recipients on their turnover intention and the mediating effect of work-related stress and job satisfaction in the relationship between workplace violence and turnover intention. Compared to the unfair experiences of abuses experienced by care recipients, care workers’ experiences have been relatively under-explored. Adopting the affective events theory as a theoretical framework and using the Korean National Long-Term Care Survey in 2019, the current analysis focuses on 2,427 care workers, excluding social workers, nurses, and occupational/physical therapists. The results of structural equations modeling and effect decomposition show a mediating effect of job satisfaction, indicating that the experience of workplace violence decreased the job satisfaction of care workers, resulting in increased turnover intention. On the other hand, workplace violence did not have a statistically significant indirect effect on turnover intention through work-related stress. Findings provide several implications for developing an inclusive and supportive policy and practice for care workers as well as the long-term care system in general in South Korea. Support programs and policies can be targeted toward the care workers who have experienced workplace violence and are less satisfied with their job. These can be done not only by highlighting the importance of training and education for care workers to help prevent workplace violence but also by providing a safe work environment, an appropriate compensation system, and the fair opportunities for promotion.

Beyond knowledge: Introducing embodied aversion through the case of contraception

Family planning programs have largely operated at the individual level, seeking to enhance individuals' knowledge of, change attitudes towards, and improve consistent use of efficacious contraception. Social science research has added to these efforts by emphasizing the structural influences that shape individuals’ contraceptive attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Such work highlights the importance of embodied knowledge which is informed by social contexts and provides individuals with a sense of assuredness in knowing which contraception works well for them (and within their bodies). However, through qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 59 self-identified women conducted from 2017 to 2018 across the state of Delaware in the United States, we argue that there is a powerful facet of contraceptive decision-making that lies beyond articulatable, conscious knowledge, which we name “embodied aversion.” We draw on affect theory and stigma theory to introduce embodied aversion as an influential feeling and orientation away from implantable and insertable contraceptive methods that arises from internalized stigma around the reproductive body. Embodied aversion overpowers conscious understanding of contraceptive benefits like efficacy, ease of use, and longevity. Our research presents embodied aversion as a missing piece of contraceptive understanding that we argue is vital in more fully conceptualizing experiential dimensions of contraceptive use. Doing so enhances patient-centered care, shared decision-making, and reproductive autonomy.

Toward a Nonhuman Narratology: Material Metaphors in Ann Pancake’s Strange as this Weather Has Been

This paper examines the convergence of affect theory and cognitive narratology. I investigate the methodological potential of a cognitive narratology informed by affect as found in the (autonomous) intensities and resonances that circulate about and between bodies (Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg). By adopting Brian Massumi’s configuration of affect (as asymbolic, autonomous and asubjective), I aim to explore how this conception can account for nonhuman (narrative) agents and open up space for alternative forms of environmental situatedness in cognitive narratology. Expanding upon the “4E” cognitive model, I trace the enmeshment of human and non-human agents within the metaphorical pattern of Ann Pancake’s 2007 novel Strange as This Weather Has Been. I undertake an analysis of multiple extra- and inter-textual vectors to show how these metaphors underscore a view of cognition as participating in a field of affective intensities and becomings and highlight its emergence as entangled in a world of material interdependencies.

When the Utopian Performative Encounters Beauty

I remember the first time I came across the utopian performative: the butterflies in my stomach, the overwhelming feeling of hope and happiness it produced. Jill Dolan [2005] points to those moments during performances when the audience comes together and feels hopeful; moments that constitute inspiration for change: for the performer, the spectator, and maybe even the world – and which are often (understandably) politically or socially charged.But my experiences were different: my feeling of hope was not emerging after watching a political vision of the future, but during and after my encounters with beauty. I began to wonder: can a profound sense of beauty that brings the feeling of hope and love, also have the potential to change the world?In this article, I explore the aesthetics of the theatrical event and its effectiveness in bringing out utopian performatives. Theoretically, I draw on Erika Fischer-Lichte’s aesthetics of the performative to show how the language of performance analysis can access a theatrical (aesthetic) experience and on the theory of affect in performance to understand my experience; also, I supplement Dolan’s theory with Dorthe Jørgensen’s experience of beauty to extend her thinking into non-political experiences and grasping them more fully.As an example, I discuss Oratorium Dance Project (Lodz 2011).

Daily interpersonal conflicts and daily negative and positive affect: exploring the moderating role of neuroticism

ABSTRACT Background and Objectives: Drawing on affective events theory, the present study investigates relationships between daily interpersonal conflicts and negative and positive affective reactions, and tested whether trait neuroticism moderates immediate (same day) and persisting (next-day) affective reactions. Design and Methods: A sample of 53 Norwegian naval cadets completed a diary questionnaire for 30 consecutive days (total N = 1590). Results: As predicted, the findings showed that cadets reported more negative affect (but not less positive affect) on days they were confronted with affective events that were of a conflicting nature. In addition, the proposed interaction effects between daily conflict and neuroticism were significant for both negative and positive affect. Specifically, the immediate and persistent effects of daily conflicts on negative affect were strongest for individuals high (vs. low) in neuroticism. Moreover, individuals high in neuroticism reported less positive affect on days with conflicts, whereas individuals low in neuroticism reported more positive affect the two days following interpersonal conflicts. Conclusions: The findings contribute to affective events theory with important knowledge about the role of trait neuroticism in dealing with interpersonal conflicts in a natural work setting.

EEG-based affective computing in virtual reality with a balancing of the computational efficiency and recognition accuracy

The field of VR-EEG affective computing is rapidly progressing. However, it faces challenges such as lacking a solid psychological theory foundation, limited classification accuracy, and high computational costs. This study established a standardized VR video library to elicit emotions. Participants viewed positive, negative, and neutral VR videos while EEG data was collected. Grounded in the Affective Style Theory, this research proposes an emotion valence recognition strategy in VR that balances computational efficiency and classification accuracy through multidimensional complementary feature extraction from EEG signals, feature selection or dimensionality reduction coupled with classifiers, and optimal frequency band selection. The research findings indicate that multidimensional complementary feature extraction in frequency and spatial domains can enhance recognition performance. Notably, the theta frequency band features are pivotal in emotion valence recognition within VR environments. Strategies like PCA-RF and RBFNN outperform existing methods, achieving an average classification accuracy of up to 95.6% while maintaining computational efficiency. In terms of theoretical contributions, the study enhances our understanding of emotional perception consistency and variability under the Affective Style Theory, offering insights into individual emotional state recognition. In practical terms, it emphasizes efficiency-accuracy balance, making integrating VR-EEG affective computation technology into a broader range of applications feasible.

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”: exploring the sensescapes of food experiences in Tivoli

ABSTRACTSet within the unexplored context of Tivoli in Copenhagen, we adapt a mixed-method approach relying on multimodal data and impressionistic storytelling, to qualitatively explore the material staging of Christmas as well as the overall impact of sensescapes on the visitor’s food experience. Drawing on affect theories and nonrepresentational theory, the paper advances multisensory food research. In this process, we demonstrate how affective atmospheres influence and shape food experiences “in situ” and develop the notion of smokescape as a poignant new concept for future food studies.

Perceived organizational politics and undesirable work attitudes: do hostility and emotional intelligence matter?

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to answer the following research questions. Does hostility shape the undesirable attitudinal consequences of perceived organizational politics (POP)? If so, does emotional intelligence play a role in this context? To answer these questions, the author relies on the affective events theory to present and empirically investigate a moderated mediation model in which: hostility mediates the relationships between POP and both job tension and turnover intentions; and emotional intelligence moderates these relationships.Design/methodology/approachThe moderated mediation model was tested among a sample of 408 employees. The data was collected in three waves.FindingsThe results revealed that hostility mediated the relationships between POP and the two undesirable attitudes explored. In addition, one of the emotional abilities included in emotional intelligence, namely, self-emotion appraisal, moderated these relationships.Practical implicationsInterventions designed to increase the emotional intelligence level of employees might reduce the hostility they experience in response to POP, and consequently, its harmful implications.Originality/valueAmong the four emotional abilities included in emotional intelligence, only self-emotional appraisal moderates the relationship between POP and hostility. Such findings imply that in some cases, a thorough understanding about one’s emotions is more effective in regulating the hostility experienced in response to organizational politics than other emotional abilities that seem more relevant in this context.

“Back Then it was Only Men Who Worked in These Kinds of Fields”: Observing Little Sparks Through the Prism of Affect and Gender in Maker Literacies Research

AbstractThis article delves into moments of affect, puncturing the exchanges between an early career 2SLGBTQ+ researcher and a group of Canadian adolescents, mostly composed of girls, who developed a ClayMation video to take the pulse of emerging vibrancies in maker literacies. Among these dynamisms came the matter of gender in the research project. Adopting a dynamic framework that builds on affect theory coupled with queer phenomenology to frame an affective researcher positionality, the author addresses implications of de/constructing gender with/in maker literacies work. To situate her queer positionality, she explores the possibility of coexisting truths in the relationalities that took place in space‐multiplicities of the makerspace, and during moments where she was driving to the research site, going home, taking part in conversations, or drafting notes. Related student data are presented through posthuman vignettes comprised of situated dynamisms between recorded open‐ended interviews, adolescent maps inspired by Hamon's situated geographies, field notes, and digital compositions. Implications for research and practice include: ways of becoming‐with data otherwise and attending to affective phenomena in the context of maker literacies, with the overall aim of de/constructing gender binaries. The author concludes with research and practical implications for literacies work, specifically in co‐constructing methodologies and designs that help reimagine more equitable maker literacies futures.

The Way I Feel, the Way I Play? The role of affect in goal realization in musical practice

We examined practice-related affect to determine the role it plays in four phases of goal realization in musical practice. Study 1 with a sample of 171 piano students and Study 2 with 235 students playing various instruments allowed for testing the relationships between four types of affect differing in valence and activation level based on the circumplex model and the phases of goal realization: practice intention, practice planning, actional phase of practice, and performance evaluation. In Study 2 we also analyzed longitudinal relationships between affect measured at Time 1 and actional phase of practice and performance evaluation measured 2 weeks later at Time 2. In both studies, highactivation positive affect was related to higher practice intention, while both high- and low-activation negative affect were related to more negative performance evaluation. The results are important for advancing affect and goal theories and for improving theoretical models of musical practice. They are relevant for music educators and music education researchers and can be used in screening and progressmonitoring efforts, shaping interventions to enhance students’ motivation to practice their instruments.

“Let’s See If We’ve Been Missing Out!”

Contemporary music analysis podcasts are engaged in an ongoing project of deconstructing pop songs and recoding them as valuable cultural objects. In this article, I understand podcasting as an extension of the popular music press and trace the affective strategies hosts use to elevate and evaluate pop songs new and old. I argue that music podcasts have seen a slow but steady departure from the conventions of critical distance and affectless, disembodied engagement to adopt an embodied, emotive response to the music that moves them. Drawing on theories of feminist affect, fan studies, and reactivity, I read the incorporation of fannish affect and the celebration of male creators’ emotive response to pop music as a continuation of a middlebrow sensibility that informs the popular music press writ large. Popular music analysis podcasts, on their surface, are a project of taking pop music seriously. When we scratch this surface, however, what we find is a mixed bag of tactics that seek to affirm the majority white, majority male creators as uniquely positioned to analyze, evaluate, and respond to music, much of which they are encountering considerably after it has already achieved the success that codes these songs as “popular” in the first place.

The Impact of Work-related Electronic Communication During Non-working Time on Work Performance

With the development of electronic information technology, the use of electronic communication equipment for work communication has become ubiquitous in people's work and life, and has brought a series of positive and negative effects. The purpose of this study is to review and analyze the academic literature on non-work time participation in work-related electronic communication. A significant finding is that most of the existing literature focuses on how non-working electronic communication affects employee initiative, work-family conflict, and time banditry behavior. At the same time, there is relatively little discussion on employee work performance. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the relationship between remote employees engaged in work-related electronic communication during non-working time and their work performance by applying affective events theory, job characteristics model theory, and job demands-resources model theory, to provide effective suggestions for enterprises and employees on how to balance work and life.

Affective theory of mind in people with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease.

This study compared the affective theory of mind (ToM) of people with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy older adults and also investigated the relationship between affective ToM and cognitive and clinical functioning in AD people. This cross-sectional study included 156 older adults with AD and 40 healthy older adults. We used an experimental task involving reasoning processes in different contextual situations. The affective ToM was impaired in AD groups compared with healthy group, with moderate AD group showing lower performance than mild AD group. The affective ToM task of mild AD group was significantly correlated with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and education years. Linear regression showed only education years as a predictor of ToM task performance. The neuropsychiatric symptoms and functionality were not correlated with the affective ToM. Our findings demonstrated that people with mild and moderate AD presented impairments in affective ToM that can be explained by the difficulties to infer emotion from reasoning processes. In addition, the education years variable proved to be an affective ToM performance's predictor for the mild AD group, but not for the moderate AD group, indicating that ToM abilities are affected differently in different stages of AD. Neuropsychiatric symptoms and functionality seem to have no influence on affective ToM impairments in people with AD.

Hurt Feelings: Affect, World, and Time in As You Like It and Early Modern Studies

Abstract: Engaging current affect theory through the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin, "Hurt Feelings" argues that affect should be understood neither as a form of embodiment nor of sympathetic correspondence but as a state of incommensurability between self and world that is at the same time the originative condition of those categories; rather than extending the self into the world, affect concerns the possibility of world as such. The essay brings such claims to bear on a scene of miraculous conversion in As You Like It that suggests both the grounds of theater's affective hold and affect's inextricable relation to our status as historical beings.

상사의 비인격적 감독이 부하의 일-가정 갈등에 미치는 영향: 부하의 용서 동기의 조절효과를 중심으로

Amid rapid economic growth and fierce competition, people are facing tremendous
 pressure in both their work and daily lives. Struggles to balance these
 roles can lead to work-family conflicts. Interactions with workplace superiors
 significantly impact job responsibilities, and abusive supervision can breed
 negative attitudes and behaviors in employees, extending these effects to their
 family lives. This study, based on the spillover effect theory, investigated
 the impact of abusive supervision by supervisors on subordinates’ work-family
 conflict. It also discussed the mediating role of subordinates’ emotional exhaustion,
 drawing on affective event theory and JD-R theory. Furthermore,
 this study addressed forgiveness motives as a coping strategy for employees
 dealing with abusive supervision and emotional exhaustion. It examined the
 moderating effects of employee forgiveness motivation and their moderated
 mediating effects. This research conducted a self-report survey among regular
 employees working in various companies in China, with a total of 354 valid
 data sets used in the final empirical analysis. Using SPSS PROCESS Macro,
 hypothesis testing results revealed that abusive supervision by superiors had
 a positive effect on subordinates’ work-family conflict, with emotional exhaustion
 mediating this relationship. Moreover, based on the conservation
 of resource theory, this study found statistically significant moderating effects
 and moderated mediating effects of self-oriented forgiveness and other-oriented
 forgiveness based on subordinates’ motivation. Based on these findings, this
 study discussed theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and suggested
 future research directions.

Behaviours not set in stone: do residents still adopt pro-tourism behaviours when tourists behave in uncivilized ways?

ABSTRACT Residents’ pro-tourism behaviours are critical for the success of tourism destinations. However, there has been limited research on how tourists’ uncivilized behaviours influence pro-tourism behaviours. Drawing from the social exchange theory, affective events theory and conservation of resources theory, this paper presents a conceptual framework to examine the impact of tourists’ uncivilized behaviours on residents’ pro-tourism behaviours and its boundary conditions. The study was conducted considering two scenarios: Scenario 1 involved a sample of residents not dependent on tourism for livelihood, while Scenario 2 consisted of residents earning their living through tourism. Data were collected from Qingdao coastal scenic area in China, and the structural equation model was employed. Results varied between the two scenarios: For residents in Scenario 1, there was a significant negative effect of tourists’ uncivilized behaviours on residents’ pro-tourism behaviours. However, this impact was not significant in Scenario 2. This suggests that the influence of tourists’ uncivilized behaviours on residents’ pro-tourism behaviours depends on the residents’ economic reliance on tourism, and residents’ behaviours are not static. Regardless of their dependence on tourism for income, the mediating effects of negative affectivity and negative perceptions, and the moderating roles of emotional intelligence and organizational support were identified.

Who cares for those who care? The role of healthcare leaders’ regulation of followers’ emotions on follower job satisfaction

In Australia and worldwide, healthcare is experiencing a workforce crisis, making the maintenance or improvement of job satisfaction a critical focus for healthcare leaders. This study examines how healthcare leaders influence followers’ affective experience by regulating their followers’ emotions. Building on Affective Events Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory, we investigate the influence of leaders’ use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression strategies on follower affect and job satisfaction. Data were collected from 337 healthcare workers and 54 leaders over two timepoints. Leaders’ reappraisal increased followers’ job satisfaction whereas suppression decreased job satisfaction (controlling for followers’ own emotion regulation strategies). These effects were mediated by followers’ affect and moderated by followers’ capacity to cope with change. Our results provide new theoretical and practical insights into how healthcare leaders regulate followers’ emotions. JEL Classification: D23, J24, M50

Evidence for a multidimensional account of cognitive and affective theory of mind: A state-trace analysis

Theory of mind (ToM) has been argued to be a multidimensional construct, with ToM inferences depending on distinct processes across affective and cognitive ToM tasks and across first-order cognitive and second-order cognitive ToM tasks. Behavioural evidence for a multidimensional account has primarily depended on dissociations identified via analysis of variance, a statistical approach insufficient for assessing dimensionality. Instead, state-trace analysis (STA) is a more appropriate statistical technique to uncover dimensionality. The current study first applied STA to two summary datasets that had previously identified key dissociations between cognitive and affective ToM; these reanalyses did not support a multidimensional account of ToM. Next, STA was applied to a more detailed dataset to reveal whether ToM is based on multiple processes in a sample of 115 older adults aged 60–85 years (M = 68.5, SD = 5.92, 61.7% female) with higher or lower emotion perception ability. Participants made ToM judgements about different social exchanges (e.g., sarcasm or lying). STA results supported a multidimensional account of ToM across first-order cognitive, second-order cognitive, and affective ToM subdomains. These results lay a more rigorous foundation for subsequent studies to further examine the dimensionality of ToM and to apply formal modelling, progressing the field’s understanding and measurement of the cognitive processes driving ToM judgements.