Sickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger

Abstract Fluctuations in health and sleep are common, but we know surprisingly little about how these daily life stressors affect one's level of frustration and sensitivity to becoming frustrated. In this pre-registered study, 517 participants (M age = 30.4, SD = 10.4) reported their current si...

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Autores principales: Leonie J. T. Balter, Tina Sundelin, John Axelsson
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:db0a4166bb2343d08a027089f173cdc92021-12-02T15:22:57ZSickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger10.1038/s41598-020-80461-42045-2322https://doaj.org/article/db0a4166bb2343d08a027089f173cdc92021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80461-4https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Fluctuations in health and sleep are common, but we know surprisingly little about how these daily life stressors affect one's level of frustration and sensitivity to becoming frustrated. In this pre-registered study, 517 participants (M age = 30.4, SD = 10.4) reported their current sickness symptoms, health status, sleepiness, and sleep duration and quality the previous night. They also rated their general frustration and mood before and after a mild frustration-eliciting task. In the task, participants were instructed to copy geometric shapes onto a piece of paper, without lifting the pen from the paper. Participants were given three minutes to copy the eight shapes, but in order to induce frustration half of them were unsolvable. The study was subsequently repeated in an independent sample (N = 113). Frustration increased in response to the task; however, those with the worst sickness symptoms or sleep health reduced or did not change their frustration levels. Instead, across both studies, frustration was already high at baseline for these individuals. These findings indicate that being sick or having poor sleep is related to high general frustration, but resilience to further frustration due to mild frustrating situations.Leonie J. T. BalterTina SundelinJohn AxelssonNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
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Leonie J. T. Balter
Tina Sundelin
John Axelsson
Sickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger
description Abstract Fluctuations in health and sleep are common, but we know surprisingly little about how these daily life stressors affect one's level of frustration and sensitivity to becoming frustrated. In this pre-registered study, 517 participants (M age = 30.4, SD = 10.4) reported their current sickness symptoms, health status, sleepiness, and sleep duration and quality the previous night. They also rated their general frustration and mood before and after a mild frustration-eliciting task. In the task, participants were instructed to copy geometric shapes onto a piece of paper, without lifting the pen from the paper. Participants were given three minutes to copy the eight shapes, but in order to induce frustration half of them were unsolvable. The study was subsequently repeated in an independent sample (N = 113). Frustration increased in response to the task; however, those with the worst sickness symptoms or sleep health reduced or did not change their frustration levels. Instead, across both studies, frustration was already high at baseline for these individuals. These findings indicate that being sick or having poor sleep is related to high general frustration, but resilience to further frustration due to mild frustrating situations.
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author Leonie J. T. Balter
Tina Sundelin
John Axelsson
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title Sickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger
title_short Sickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger
title_full Sickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger
title_fullStr Sickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger
title_full_unstemmed Sickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger
title_sort sickness and sleep health predict frustration and affective responses to a frustrating trigger
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