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  • Affective Science
  • Clinical Psychology

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  • Affective forecasting, the prediction of future emotional states, influences decision-making and functioning.
  • Real-time methods like ecological momentary assessment (EMA) have been used to study affective forecasting.
  • Predictors of the strength of daily affective forecasts and experienced negative emotion remain underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate distress tolerance as a moderator of daily affective forecasting effects.
  • To determine if lower distress tolerance amplifies the association between daily affective predictions and subsequent negative emotions.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized ecological momentary assessment (EMA) in a large sample of undergraduate students (N=411).
  • Examined the relationship between daily affective forecasts and experienced negative emotion.
  • Analyzed distress tolerance as a potential moderating variable.

Main Results:

  • Findings supported the hypothesis: poorer distress tolerance was associated with a stronger link between negative affective forecasts and experienced negative emotion.
  • Individuals with lower distress tolerance showed a more pronounced association between predicting a bad day and feeling negative emotions later.
  • Distress tolerance significantly moderated daily affective forecasting effects.

Conclusions:

  • Distress tolerance plays a crucial role in modulating the accuracy and impact of daily affective forecasts.
  • Individuals with lower distress tolerance may be more vulnerable to the negative consequences of inaccurate affective predictions.
  • Future research should explore distress tolerance's moderating role in larger, diverse community samples.