Open AccessAffect variability and inflammatory markers in midlife adults.
Author(s) -
Dusti R. Jones,
Joshua M. Smyth,
Christopher G. Engeland,
Martin J. Sliwinski,
Michael A. Russell,
Nancy L. Sin,
David M. Almeida,
Jennifer E. GrahamEngeland
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1930-7810
pISSN - 0278-6133
DOI - 10.1037/hea0000868
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , moderation , psychology , demography , medicine , cytokine , immunology , clinical psychology , social psychology , communication , sociology
Higher affect variability (the extent to which individuals vary in their affect over time) has been associated with poorer health indicators, but associations with inflammation are less well understood. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether affect variability was associated with inflammation in ways consistent with the stability theory or the fragile positive affect theory, and whether associations were linear or nonlinear.