Iven Van Mechelen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4231831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iven Van Mechelen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iven |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Mechelen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN MECHELEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9917-8540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Physical activity and relaxation in the work setting to reduce the need for recovery
NTR2553
To share, or not to share? Examining the emotional consequences of social sharing in the case of anger and sadness
Previous research has shown the relation between social sharing and emotional processing to be notoriously complex. In the present study, we unraveled this complexity by, for the first time, taking 3 key aspects of this relation into account simultaneously: the nature of the emotion, the timing of possible sharing effects, and the multicomponential character of emotions. Using the day reconstruction method, we first identified an intense anger or…
The relationship between self-distancing and the duration of negative and positive emotional experiences in daily life
Extant research suggests that self-distancing facilitates adaptive self-reflection of negative emotional experiences. However, this work operationalizes adaptive self-reflection in terms of a reduction in the intensity of negative emotion, ignoring other important aspects of emotional experience such as emotion duration. Moreover, prior research has predominantly focused on how self-distancing influences emotional reactivity in response to reflec…
The relation between event processing and the duration of emotional experience
An emotional experience can last for only a couple of seconds up to several hours or even longer. In the present study, we examine to which extent covert intrapersonal actions (cognitions both related and unrelated to the emotion-eliciting stimulus) as well as overt interpersonal actions (social sharing) account for this variability in emotion duration. Participants were asked to report the duration of their anger, sadness, joy, and gratitude epi…
Predicting the duration of emotional experience
The authors present 2 studies to explain the variability in the duration of emotional experience. Participants were asked to report the duration of their fear, anger, joy, gratitude, and sadness episodes on a daily basis. Information was further collected with regard to potential predictor variables at 3 levels: trait predictors, episode predictors, and moment predictors. Discrete-time survival analyses revealed that, for all 5 emotions under stu…
A royal road to understanding the mechanisms underlying person-in-context behavior
Toward Disentangling Sources of Individual Differences in Appraisal and Anger
A theoretical framework is presented to explain individual differences in situation‐specific emotional experience in terms of three different sources of variance: (a) individual differences in how one appraises one's circumstances, (b) individual differences in how appraisals are related to the experience of emotion, and (c) individual differences independent from situation and appraisal. The relative contribution and nature of these sources was …
Appraisal-emotion relationships in daily life
Using a daily process design, the present study examined relationships between momentary appraisals and emotional experience based on Smith and Lazarus' (1993) theory of emotions (1993). Nine times a day for 2 weeks, participants (N = 33, 23 women) recorded their momentary experience of 2 positive emotions (joy, love) and 4 negative emotions (anger, guilt, fear, sadness) and the core relational theme appraisal contents Smith and Lazarus hypothesi…
Individual differences in core affect variability and their relationship to personality and psychological adjustment
How people's feelings change across time can be represented as trajectories in a core affect space defined by the dimensions of valence and activation. In this article, the authors analyzed individual differences in within-person affective variability defined as characteristics of core affect trajectories, introducing new ways to conceptualize affective variability. In 2 studies, participants provided multiple reports across time describing how t…
Individual Differences in Anger and Sadness
In the cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS) theory of Mischel and Shoda (1995, 1998), personality is conceived as a system of cognitions and affects that mediates between active situational features and behavior. Two major tasks for this approach to personality are the search for active situational features and for mediating psychological processes within a behavioral domain of interest. We report two studies to address these tasks for t…
The co-occurrence of emotions in daily life
The personality triad in balance
The appraisal basis of anger
The nature of the association between anger and 5 appraisal-action tendency components--goal obstacle, other accountability, unfairness, control, and antagonism--was examined in terms of specificity, necessity, and sufficiency. In 2 studies, participants described recently experienced unpleasant situations in which 1 of the appraisal-action tendency components was present or absent and indicated which emotions they had experienced. The results sh…
Individual differences in situation-behavior profiles
A model is proposed to represent individual differences in situation-behavior profiles. The model consists of 3 components: (a) q'ypologies of person, situation, and behavior classes; (b) hierarchical relations between the classes of each typology; and (c) a characterization f the person types in terms of different sets of if (situation class) then (behavior class) rules by which the 3 typologies are linked to one another. A data analysis techniq…
Individual differences in situation–behavior profiles
A model is proposed to represent individual differences in situation-behavior profiles. The model consists of 3 components: (a) Typologies of person, situation, and behavior classes; (b) hierarchical relations between the classes of each typology; and (c) a characterization of the person types in terms of different sets of if(situation class) then (behavior class) rules by which the 3 typologies are linked to one another. A data analysis techniqu…
A FORTRAN Program for the Detection of Logical Relations Between a Set of Predictors and a Criterion Variable
L'auteur presente un programme appele CRA (Combination Rule Analysis) redige en FORTRAN et dont le but est de trouver la regle de combinaison logique qui relie un ensemble de variables explicatives binaires a une variable critere binaire egalement
Individual differences in situation–behavior profiles
A model is proposed to represent individual differences in situation-behavior profiles. The model consists of 3 components: (a) Typologies of person, situation, and behavior classes; (b) hierarchical relations between the classes of each typology; and (c) a characterization of the person types in terms of different sets of if(situation class) then (behavior class) rules by which the 3 typologies are linked to one another. A data analysis techniqu…
The co-occurrence of emotions in daily life
A royal road to understanding the mechanisms underlying person-in-context behavior
The personality triad in balance
A FORTRAN Program for the Detection of Logical Relations Between a Set of Predictors and a Criterion Variable
L'auteur presente un programme appele CRA (Combination Rule Analysis) redige en FORTRAN et dont le but est de trouver la regle de combinaison logique qui relie un ensemble de variables explicatives binaires a une variable critere binaire egalement
Individual differences in situation-behavior profiles
A model is proposed to represent individual differences in situation-behavior profiles. The model consists of 3 components: (a) q'ypologies of person, situation, and behavior classes; (b) hierarchical relations between the classes of each typology; and (c) a characterization f the person types in terms of different sets of if (situation class) then (behavior class) rules by which the 3 typologies are linked to one another. A data analysis techniq…
Individual differences in situation–behavior profiles
A model is proposed to represent individual differences in situation-behavior profiles. The model consists of 3 components: (a) Typologies of person, situation, and behavior classes; (b) hierarchical relations between the classes of each typology; and (c) a characterization of the person types in terms of different sets of if(situation class) then (behavior class) rules by which the 3 typologies are linked to one another. A data analysis techniqu…
The appraisal basis of anger
The nature of the association between anger and 5 appraisal-action tendency components--goal obstacle, other accountability, unfairness, control, and antagonism--was examined in terms of specificity, necessity, and sufficiency. In 2 studies, participants described recently experienced unpleasant situations in which 1 of the appraisal-action tendency components was present or absent and indicated which emotions they had experienced. The results sh…
The personality triad in balance
The co-occurrence of emotions in daily life
Individual Differences in Anger and Sadness
In the cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS) theory of Mischel and Shoda (1995, 1998), personality is conceived as a system of cognitions and affects that mediates between active situational features and behavior. Two major tasks for this approach to personality are the search for active situational features and for mediating psychological processes within a behavioral domain of interest. We report two studies to address these tasks for t…
Individual differences in core affect variability and their relationship to personality and psychological adjustment
How people's feelings change across time can be represented as trajectories in a core affect space defined by the dimensions of valence and activation. In this article, the authors analyzed individual differences in within-person affective variability defined as characteristics of core affect trajectories, introducing new ways to conceptualize affective variability. In 2 studies, participants provided multiple reports across time describing how t…
Toward Disentangling Sources of Individual Differences in Appraisal and Anger
A theoretical framework is presented to explain individual differences in situation‐specific emotional experience in terms of three different sources of variance: (a) individual differences in how one appraises one's circumstances, (b) individual differences in how appraisals are related to the experience of emotion, and (c) individual differences independent from situation and appraisal. The relative contribution and nature of these sources was …
Appraisal-emotion relationships in daily life
Using a daily process design, the present study examined relationships between momentary appraisals and emotional experience based on Smith and Lazarus' (1993) theory of emotions (1993). Nine times a day for 2 weeks, participants (N = 33, 23 women) recorded their momentary experience of 2 positive emotions (joy, love) and 4 negative emotions (anger, guilt, fear, sadness) and the core relational theme appraisal contents Smith and Lazarus hypothesi…
Predicting the duration of emotional experience
The authors present 2 studies to explain the variability in the duration of emotional experience. Participants were asked to report the duration of their fear, anger, joy, gratitude, and sadness episodes on a daily basis. Information was further collected with regard to potential predictor variables at 3 levels: trait predictors, episode predictors, and moment predictors. Discrete-time survival analyses revealed that, for all 5 emotions under stu…
A royal road to understanding the mechanisms underlying person-in-context behavior
The relation between event processing and the duration of emotional experience
An emotional experience can last for only a couple of seconds up to several hours or even longer. In the present study, we examine to which extent covert intrapersonal actions (cognitions both related and unrelated to the emotion-eliciting stimulus) as well as overt interpersonal actions (social sharing) account for this variability in emotion duration. Participants were asked to report the duration of their anger, sadness, joy, and gratitude epi…
The relationship between self-distancing and the duration of negative and positive emotional experiences in daily life
Extant research suggests that self-distancing facilitates adaptive self-reflection of negative emotional experiences. However, this work operationalizes adaptive self-reflection in terms of a reduction in the intensity of negative emotion, ignoring other important aspects of emotional experience such as emotion duration. Moreover, prior research has predominantly focused on how self-distancing influences emotional reactivity in response to reflec…
To share, or not to share? Examining the emotional consequences of social sharing in the case of anger and sadness
Previous research has shown the relation between social sharing and emotional processing to be notoriously complex. In the present study, we unraveled this complexity by, for the first time, taking 3 key aspects of this relation into account simultaneously: the nature of the emotion, the timing of possible sharing effects, and the multicomponential character of emotions. Using the day reconstruction method, we first identified an intense anger or…
Physical activity and relaxation in the work setting to reduce the need for recovery
NTR2553
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Anger (8 works) · Personality Traits and Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Mental Health Research Topics (7 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (6 works) · Cognition (5 works)