TY - JOUR
T1 - A contextualized emotion perception assessment relates to personal and social well-being
AU - Kafetsios, Konstantinos
AU - Hess, Ursula
AU - Dostal, Daniel
AU - Seitl, Martin
AU - Hypsova, Petra
AU - Hareli, Shlomo
AU - Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar
AU - Schütz, Astrid
AU - Gruda, Dritjon
AU - Campbell, Kelly
AU - Chen, Bin Bin
AU - Held, Marco J.
AU - Kamble, Shanmukh
AU - Kimura, Takuma
AU - Kirchner-Häusler, Alexander
AU - Livi, Stefano
AU - Mandal, Eugenia
AU - Ochnik, Dominika
AU - Sakman, Ezgi
AU - Sumer, Nebi
AU - Theodorou, Annalisa
AU - Uskul, Ayse K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors
PY - 2025/2
Y1 - 2025/2
N2 - Emotion Recognition Accuracy (ERA) is vital for social functioning and social relationships, yet empirical support for a positive link with well-being has been sparse. In three studies, we show that the Assessment of Contextualized Emotions (ACE) which distinguishes between accurately perceiving intended emotions and bias due to perceiving additional, secondary emotions, consistently predicted personal and social well-being. Across thirteen world cultures, accuracy was associated with higher well-being and life satisfaction, and bias linked to loneliness. A social interaction study in Czech Republic found accuracy (bias) was positively (negatively) associated with social well-being. The effects of accuracy and bias on well-being were partially mediated by social interaction quality in a third study. These findings further our understanding of ERA's social functions.
AB - Emotion Recognition Accuracy (ERA) is vital for social functioning and social relationships, yet empirical support for a positive link with well-being has been sparse. In three studies, we show that the Assessment of Contextualized Emotions (ACE) which distinguishes between accurately perceiving intended emotions and bias due to perceiving additional, secondary emotions, consistently predicted personal and social well-being. Across thirteen world cultures, accuracy was associated with higher well-being and life satisfaction, and bias linked to loneliness. A social interaction study in Czech Republic found accuracy (bias) was positively (negatively) associated with social well-being. The effects of accuracy and bias on well-being were partially mediated by social interaction quality in a third study. These findings further our understanding of ERA's social functions.
KW - Emotion perception
KW - Interpersonal interaction
KW - Multilevel analysis
KW - Well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85212316546&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104556
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104556
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85212316546
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 114
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
M1 - 104556
ER -