Article

Well-being and motivational person-environment fit: A timesampling study of emotions

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Brandstätter, Hermann

Abstract / Description

The report is based on the data of seven studies (altogether 188 persons varying in gender, age, and education level) with the author's time-sampling diary, by which the subjects record their momentary mood, the behaviour setting, other persons present, activities, causal attributions ofexperienced emotions, and affected motives about four times a day for a period of 30 days. For each pattern of four 16PF second-order factors (median split), the relative frequencies of references to six classes ofmotives (i.e. the personal motive profiles) and for each of 16 behaviour settings, the relative frequencies by which each ofthose motives was satisfied in the whole sample of persons (environmental motive profiles) were derived from the diary data. The degree of motivational person-environment fit (P-Efit; correlation of personal and environmental motive profiles) was calculated for each combination of personality structure and behaviour setting. As predicted, a person's well-being in a behaviour setting clearly depends on the motivational P-E fit which explains the intra-individual variance of well-being (across situations) and the intra-situational variance (across persons) in addition to the variance explained by emotional stability and extraversion.

Keyword(s)

Person Umwelt Kongruenz Wohlbefinden Motivation Gefühl Mentaler Zustand Person-Umwelt-Kongruenz Wohlbefinden Motivation Emotionale Zustände Person Environment Fit Well Being Motivation Emotional States

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Date of first publication

1994

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unknown

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Citation

  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Brandstätter, Hermann
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2022-11-21T17:09:28Z
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    2014-07-17
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    2015-12-01T10:31:15Z
  • Made available on
    2022-11-21T17:09:28Z
  • Date of first publication
    1994
  • Abstract / Description
    The report is based on the data of seven studies (altogether 188 persons varying in gender, age, and education level) with the author's time-sampling diary, by which the subjects record their momentary mood, the behaviour setting, other persons present, activities, causal attributions ofexperienced emotions, and affected motives about four times a day for a period of 30 days. For each pattern of four 16PF second-order factors (median split), the relative frequencies of references to six classes ofmotives (i.e. the personal motive profiles) and for each of 16 behaviour settings, the relative frequencies by which each ofthose motives was satisfied in the whole sample of persons (environmental motive profiles) were derived from the diary data. The degree of motivational person-environment fit (P-Efit; correlation of personal and environmental motive profiles) was calculated for each combination of personality structure and behaviour setting. As predicted, a person's well-being in a behaviour setting clearly depends on the motivational P-E fit which explains the intra-individual variance of well-being (across situations) and the intra-situational variance (across persons) in addition to the variance explained by emotional stability and extraversion.
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  • Publication status
    unknown
  • Review status
    unknown
  • ISSN
    0890-2070
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-41051
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/848
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.10927
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Is part of
    In: European Journal of Personality, Vol. 8, 75-93 (1994)
  • Keyword(s)
    Person
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Umwelt
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Kongruenz
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Wohlbefinden
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Motivation
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Gefühl
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Mentaler Zustand
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Person-Umwelt-Kongruenz
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Wohlbefinden
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  • Keyword(s)
    Motivation
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  • Keyword(s)
    Emotionale Zustände
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  • Keyword(s)
    Person Environment Fit
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  • Keyword(s)
    Well Being
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  • Keyword(s)
    Motivation
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  • Keyword(s)
    Emotional States
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Well-being and motivational person-environment fit: A timesampling study of emotions
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  • DRO type
    article
  • Visible tag(s)
    PsyDok