ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Heart Rate Variability's Association with Positive and Negative Affect in Daily Life: An Experience Sampling Study with Continuous Daytime Electrocardiography over Seven Days.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Associations Between Positive Affect and Heart Rate Variability: A Systematic Review.Current cardiology reports · 2025Pooled it
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- Toward Objective Assessment of Positive Affect: EEG and HRV Indices Distinguishing High and Low Arousal Positive Affect.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sleep dependent autonomic correlates of affect and arousal in younger and older adults.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Wearable Biosensors in Youth With Autism With High Behavioral Acuity: Supportive Practices, Acceptability, and the Importance of Nonverbal Signs of Assent to Research Participation.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities · 2026Article
- The association of caffeine consumption with positive affect but not with negative affect changes across the day.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Associations between wearables vital parameters and self-perceived mood-an ecological momentary assessment study among healthy adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Positive psychological well-being and cardiovascular health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- SMART System in the Assessment of Exercise Tolerance in Adults.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Investigating associations between physical activity, stress experience, and affective wellbeing during an examination period using experience sampling and accelerometry.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Heart rate variability has been found to be related to emotional processing and emotional responses. Studies that investigated these relationships were mostly lab-based or cross-sectional. Only limited research used intensive longitudinal data, in particular investigating within-individual processes in real-life settings. This study addresses the applicability of ambulatory-assessed electrocardiograms in combination with the experience sampling methodology by investigating the associations of various HRV measures with affective states on within- and between-individual levels. A total of 26 participants aged 18-29 years (23 females) wore electrocardiograms continuously for seven days. The participants received seven prompts per day and answered questions about their affective wellbeing. The heart rate and heart rate variability measures differed between body positions and activity classes. The heart rate and ratio of low-to-high-frequency heart rate variability were consistently associated with positive affect on a within-individual (state-like) level. These associations were mainly driven by the items of feeling "enthusiastic" and "happy". No associations were found with negative affect. Overall, we found evidence that the dominance of the sympathetic nervous system over the parasympathetic nervous system was associated with higher levels of positive affect on a within-individual (state-like) level. Suggestions for the application of ambulatory electrocardiogram assessment in the study of the association between autonomous nervous system activity and ecological momentary assessment-based variables are discussed.
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