The EMOTIONS project: Social interactions and emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic

The EMOTIONS project aims to contribute to a better understanding of both decontextualized and momentary cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, it helps to uncover how these reactions are affected by stable interindividual-difference variables (e.g., personality traits) and the situational context (e.g., social interactions). The EMOTIONS project encompassed two large experience sampling studies, Study 1 (university students) and Study 2 (general population). Each study subsumed two 14-day ESM waves that took place before and during (Study 1) or during and after (Study 2) the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. If you are planning to use EMOTIONS data for your research, please provide brief information on yourself (and your fellow investigators), your research question(s), and the EMOTIONS data of interest via the following Google Survey: https://forms.gle/MDj6WceMcioq5eUt9 Moreover, once you have formally preregistered your research, we encourage you to link this preregistration with the EMOTIONS project OSF page. Both procedures will allow other investigators and us to keep an overview of all planned and ongoing research projects employing EMOTIONS data. Please cite as: Ryvkina, E., Kroencke, L., Geukes, K., Scharbert, J., & Back, M. D. (2023). Understanding psychological responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through ESM data: The EMOTIONS project. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.8

Neuroticism and emotional risk during the COVID-19 pandemic

Here we provide you with supplemental materials (Codebook, Data, Statistical Code) to the manuscript "Neuroticism and emotional risk during the Covid-19 pandemic"

Impression formation in Personality Disorder and Clinical Control Subjects

In this project, we aim to further explore impression formation in PD. With regard to BPD, we previously found that BPD individuals were evaluated as less trustworthy, and that negative evaluations were driven by low levels of positive emotional expression and heightened negative affect expression. On the other hand, studies on narcissism highlighted rather positive first impressions. In the planned project, we investigate the effects of pathological personality traits (PID-5-SF) on interpersonal perceptions (i.e. ratings of trustworthiness, sympathy, intelligence and dominance) in a group of 120 individuals with varying levels of personality dysfunction. Additionally, we plan to investigate the effects of nonverbal behavior (i.e. positive and negative facial expression) in more detail, including objective measures (i.e. automatized coding of facial expressions). To this end, we will use a round robin design developed by Geukes et al. (2019) to study the effects of personality on the development of social relationships during initial phases of the acquaintance process

Moody and in love

OSF page of the article "Moody and in Love? The Role of Neuroticism and Romantic Relationships for Momentary Affect in Adolescence

Preprint and Additional Materials for "Can Other-Derogation Be Beneficial? Seeing Others as Low in Agency Can Lead to an Agentic Reputation in Newly Formed Face-To-Face Groups"

OSM for JPSP Submission PSP-P-2017-100

Health-related quality of life in school children during COVID-19 pandemic based on changes in physical activity

Negative mental health effects of the first months of corona pandemic and associated lockdowns (LD) are evident for children and adolescents. Given supportive effects of physical activity (PA) beyond pandemics, this study aims to determine (1) whether health-related quality of life (HRQoL) decreased during prolonged LD and (2) if PA was a resource to maintain HRQoL. Data of a German representative sample of N = 1,322 children and adolescents from the independent in-depth Corona-study of the ‘Motorik-Modul’ study (MoMo) were analyzed. Participants filled in online surveys at t0 = Pre pandemic (2018 – 2020), t1 = LD I (04/2020) and t2 = LD II (02/2021), including socio-demographic information, PA and HRQoL. Linear mixed effects models were conducted to predict LD effects and their interaction with PA on HRQoL. Age, sex, parents’ income, education, and job and four factors of living environment as well as their interactions with LD were added to investigate potential risk factors. There are significant main effects on HRQoL from pre to LD I and to LD II as well as for PA. PA had a positive interaction effect on HRQoL from pre to LD II, but not to LD I. Other significant main effects show higher HRQoL for higher parents’ income, better walking opportunities in living environment controlled for age and sex. From pre to LD I positive effects exist for parents’ income. HRQoL decreased during both LDs while PA shows a generally positive effect on HRQoL. The positive effect of PA on HRQoL was particularly pronounced during LDII. Policy debates about social distancing instruments like homeschooling need an ongoing attention to PA and their effects on mental health. Further, especially low-income families suffered from LD I and need to be addressed particularly in future crisis

Trait Personality and State Variability: Predicting Individual Differences in Within- and Cross-Context Fluctuations in Affect, Self-Evaluations, and Behavior in Everyday Life

Here, we provide you with supplemental material (data, R-Codes) to the manuscript "Trait Personality and State Variability: Predicting Individual Differences in Within- and Cross-Context Fluctuations in Affect, Self-Evaluations, and Behavior in Everyday Life" by Geukes et al. (2017). If you like to get in contact with us, please write an email to [email protected]

A natural experiment on the influence of physical education and physical activity outside school on physical self-concept in children and adolescents during the second lockdown related to pandemic Covid-19

Higher physical activity (PA) in children and adolescents is very important. One of its main predictors is a positive physical self-concept (Babic et al., 2014). PA behavior changed drastically during corona pandemic as for instance physical education (PE) was omitted widely in schools, and may therefore had a negative effect on PSC. In this study, we examine the relationship between the amount of PE during second pandemic lockdown in Germany on PSC, while considering effects of other types of PA. Data of N = 1439 German children and adolescents (6-18y, 704 fem.) from the ‘Motorik-Modul’ study (MoMo) were analyzed. All participants filled in an online questionnaire during the second lockdown of the corona pandemic, including demographic information, PSC (global, strength and endurance), and PE hours and PA (Sports Club, Leisure Time). Covariates were age, sex, and their interactions. Linear mixed models were used. PE during lockdown did not significantly relate to any PSC domain. For Sports Club PA, however, interaction with sex were significant for all PSC domains, indicating stronger positive relationships in female compared to male individuals. In addition, older individuals showed a stronger relationship between Leisure Time PA and PSCglobal and PSCendurance as well as between Sports Club PA and PSCstrength compared to younger individuals. PE classes during lockdown had no effect on PSC. In contrast, higher PA in sports clubs and leisure time seemed to promote a positive PSC during lockdown II, particularly in female children and adolescents. More specialized interventions should be implemented to improve PSC by PE, and availability of sports clubs and daily activities might be expanded