Abstract
Affect is involved in many psychological phenomena, but a descriptive structure, long sought, has been elusive. Valence and arousal are fundamental, and a key question–the focus of the present study–is the relationship between them. Valence is sometimes thought to be independent of arousal, but, in some studies (representing too few societies in the world) arousal was found to vary with valence. One common finding is that arousal is lowest at neutral valence and increases with both positive and negative valence: a symmetric Vshaped relationship. In the study reported here of self-reported affect during a remembered moment (N = 8,590), we tested the valence-arousal relationship in 33 societies with 25 different languages. The two most common hypotheses in the literature–independence and a symmetric V-shaped relationship–were not supported. With data of all samples pooled, arousal increased with positive but not negative valence. Valence accounted for between 5% (Finland) and 43% (China Beijing) of the variance in arousal. Although there is evidence for a structural relationship between the two, there is also a large amount of variability in this relation
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Emotion |
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| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2022 |
Keywords
- Arousal
- Culture
- Structure of affect
- Subjective experience
- Valence
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- Psychology(all)
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On the Relationship Between Valence and Arousal in Samples Across the Globe. / Yik, Michelle; Mues, Chiel; Sze, Irene N.L.; Kuppens, Peter; Tuerlinckx, Francis; De Roover, Kim; Kwok, Felity H.C.; Schwartz, Shalom H.; Abu-Hilal, Maher; Adebayo, Damilola Fisayo; Aguilar, Pilar; Al-Bahrani, Muna; Anderson, Marc H.; Andrade, Laura; Bratko, Denis; Bushina, Ekaterina; Choi, Jeong Won; Cieciuch, Jan; Dru, Vincent; Evers, Uwana; Fischer, Ronald; Florez, Ivonne Andrea; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.; Gari, Aikaterini; Graf, Sylvie; Halama, Peter; Halberstadt, Jamin; Halim, Magdalena S.; Heilman, Renata M.; Hřebíčková, Martina; Karl, Johannes Alfons; Knežević, Goran; Kohút, Michal; Kolnes, Martin; Lazarević, Ljiljana B.; Lebedeva, Nadezhda; Lee, Julie; Lee, Young Ho; Liu, Chunquan; Mannerström, Rasmus; Marušić, Iris; Nansubuga, Florence; Ojedokun, Oluyinka; Park, Joonha; Platt, Tracey; Proyer, René T.; Realo, Anu; Rolland, Jean Pierre; Ruch, Willibald; Ruiz, Desiree; Sortheix, Florencia M.; Stahlmann, Alexander Georg; Stojanov, Ana; Strus, Włodzimierz; Tamir, Maya; Torres, Cláudio; Trujillo, Angela; Truong, Thi Khanh Ha; Utsugi, Akira; Vecchione, Michele; Wang, Lei; Russell, James A.
In: Emotion, 2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - On the Relationship Between Valence and Arousal in Samples Across the Globe
AU - Yik, Michelle
AU - Mues, Chiel
AU - Sze, Irene N.L.
AU - Kuppens, Peter
AU - Tuerlinckx, Francis
AU - De Roover, Kim
AU - Kwok, Felity H.C.
AU - Schwartz, Shalom H.
AU - Abu-Hilal, Maher
AU - Adebayo, Damilola Fisayo
AU - Aguilar, Pilar
AU - Al-Bahrani, Muna
AU - Anderson, Marc H.
AU - Andrade, Laura
AU - Bratko, Denis
AU - Bushina, Ekaterina
AU - Choi, Jeong Won
AU - Cieciuch, Jan
AU - Dru, Vincent
AU - Evers, Uwana
AU - Fischer, Ronald
AU - Florez, Ivonne Andrea
AU - Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.
AU - Gari, Aikaterini
AU - Graf, Sylvie
AU - Halama, Peter
AU - Halberstadt, Jamin
AU - Halim, Magdalena S.
AU - Heilman, Renata M.
AU - Hřebíčková, Martina
AU - Karl, Johannes Alfons
AU - Knežević, Goran
AU - Kohút, Michal
AU - Kolnes, Martin
AU - Lazarević, Ljiljana B.
AU - Lebedeva, Nadezhda
AU - Lee, Julie
AU - Lee, Young Ho
AU - Liu, Chunquan
AU - Mannerström, Rasmus
AU - Marušić, Iris
AU - Nansubuga, Florence
AU - Ojedokun, Oluyinka
AU - Park, Joonha
AU - Platt, Tracey
AU - Proyer, René T.
AU - Realo, Anu
AU - Rolland, Jean Pierre
AU - Ruch, Willibald
AU - Ruiz, Desiree
AU - Sortheix, Florencia M.
AU - Stahlmann, Alexander Georg
AU - Stojanov, Ana
AU - Strus, Włodzimierz
AU - Tamir, Maya
AU - Torres, Cláudio
AU - Trujillo, Angela
AU - Truong, Thi Khanh Ha
AU - Utsugi, Akira
AU - Vecchione, Michele
AU - Wang, Lei
AU - Russell, James A.
N1 - Funding Information: Preparation of the article was facilitated by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council’s General Research Fund (Projects 16651916 and 16601818) awarded to Michelle Yik. The contributions of Sylvie Graf and Martina Hrebícková were supported by the Czech Science Foundation (20-01214S) and the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences (RVO: 68081740). The contributions of Nadezhda Lebedeva and Ekaterina Bushina were supported by the Basic Research Program at HSE University, RF. The contributions of Francis Tuerlinckx and Peter Kuppens were supported by KU Leuven Research Council Grant C14/19/054. The contributions of Anu Realo and Martin Kolnes were supported by institutional research funding (IUT2–13) from the Estonian Ministry of Education and Sciences. These findings were presented as a poster at the 2021 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference.We have no conflicts of interest to disclose Publisher Copyright: © 2022 American Psychological Association
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Affect is involved in many psychological phenomena, but a descriptive structure, long sought, has been elusive. Valence and arousal are fundamental, and a key question–the focus of the present study–is the relationship between them. Valence is sometimes thought to be independent of arousal, but, in some studies (representing too few societies in the world) arousal was found to vary with valence. One common finding is that arousal is lowest at neutral valence and increases with both positive and negative valence: a symmetric Vshaped relationship. In the study reported here of self-reported affect during a remembered moment (N = 8,590), we tested the valence-arousal relationship in 33 societies with 25 different languages. The two most common hypotheses in the literature–independence and a symmetric V-shaped relationship–were not supported. With data of all samples pooled, arousal increased with positive but not negative valence. Valence accounted for between 5% (Finland) and 43% (China Beijing) of the variance in arousal. Although there is evidence for a structural relationship between the two, there is also a large amount of variability in this relation
AB - Affect is involved in many psychological phenomena, but a descriptive structure, long sought, has been elusive. Valence and arousal are fundamental, and a key question–the focus of the present study–is the relationship between them. Valence is sometimes thought to be independent of arousal, but, in some studies (representing too few societies in the world) arousal was found to vary with valence. One common finding is that arousal is lowest at neutral valence and increases with both positive and negative valence: a symmetric Vshaped relationship. In the study reported here of self-reported affect during a remembered moment (N = 8,590), we tested the valence-arousal relationship in 33 societies with 25 different languages. The two most common hypotheses in the literature–independence and a symmetric V-shaped relationship–were not supported. With data of all samples pooled, arousal increased with positive but not negative valence. Valence accounted for between 5% (Finland) and 43% (China Beijing) of the variance in arousal. Although there is evidence for a structural relationship between the two, there is also a large amount of variability in this relation
KW - Arousal
KW - Culture
KW - Structure of affect
KW - Subjective experience
KW - Valence
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U2 - 10.1037/emo0001095
DO - 10.1037/emo0001095
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