Positive organizational scholarship has led to a growing interest in the critical role of positive
emotions for the lives of both workers and organizations. We review and integrate the …

Not only how good or bad people feel on average, but also how their feelings fluctuate
across time is crucial for psychological health. The last 2 decades have witnessed a surge in …

Well-being refers to a person's hedonic experience of feeling good and to the eudaimonic
experience of fulfillment and purpose. Employee well-being is influenced by experiences at …

Affect is basic to many if not all psychological phenomena. This article examines 2 of the
most fundamental properties of affective experience—valence and arousal—asking how …

In this article, we examine the concept of emotional inertia as a fundamental property of the
emotion dynamics that characterize psychological maladjustment. Emotional inertia refers to …

We argue that creativity is influenced by the dynamic interplay of positive and negative
affect: High creativity results if a person experiences an episode of negative affect that is …

On the basis of self-regulation theories, the authors develop an affective shift model of work
engagement according to which work engagement emerges from the dynamic interplay of …

People display a remarkable variability in the patterns and trajectories with which their
feelings change over time. In this article, we present a theoretical account for the dynamics …

As an alternative to using the concepts of emotion, fear, anger, and the like as scientific
tools, this article advocates an approach based on the concepts of core affect and …

The study of intraindividual variability is the study of fluctuations, oscillations, adaptations,
and “noise” in behavioral outcomes that manifest on microtime scales. This article provides a …