How differentiated do children experience affect? An investigation of the within-and between-person structure of children's affect

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 575-585

  Leonhardt, Anja ^a,b   Könen, Tanja ^c   Dirk, Judith ^a,b   Schmiedek, Florian ^a,b,c  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA)   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect structure; Children; Fluctuations; Middle childhood; Within person

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CALMNESS TENSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGATIVE AFFECT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSITIVE AFFECT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REFLECTION; SLEEP; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; THEORY OF MIND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SMARTPHONE;

AFFECT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SMARTPHONE;

EID: 84939174529     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pas0000195     Document Type: Article

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