Title On the Relationship Between Valence and Arousal in Samples Across the Globe
Authors 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 BARRIGA, MARÍA DEL 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 , Gardarsdottir, Ragna B. , Gari, Aikaterini , Graf, Sylvie , Halama, Peter , Halberstadt, Jamin , Halim, Magdalena S. , Heilman, Renata M. , Hrebickova, Martina , Kar, Johannes Alfons , Knezevic, Goran , Kohut, Michal , Kolnes, Martin , Lazarevic, Ljiljana B. , Lebedeva, Nadezhda , Lee, Julie , Lee, Young-Ho , Liu, Chunquan , Mannerstrom, Rasmus , Marusic, Iris , Nansubuga, Florence , Ojedokun, Oluyinka , Park, Joonha , Platt, Tracey , Proyer, Rene T. , Realo, Anu , Rolland, Jean-Pierre , Ruch, Willibald , RUIZ ARANDA, DESIREE, Sortheix, Florencia M. , Stahlmann, Alexander Georg , Stojanov, Ana , Strus, Wlodzimierz , Tamir, Maya , Torres, Claudio , Trujillo, Angela , Ha Truong, Thi Khanh , Utsugi, Akira , Vecchione, Michele , Wang, Lei , Russell, James A.
External publication No
Means Emotion
Scope Article
Nature Científica
JCR Quartile 1
SJR Quartile 1
JCR Impact 4.2
SJR Impact 1.67
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Publication date 21/04/2022
ISI 000783953300001
Scopus Id 2-s2.0-85130608520
DOI 10.1037/emo0001095
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 V-shaped 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.
Keywords valence; arousal; subjective experience; structure of affect; culture
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