Emotional Self-Efficacy Predicts Lower Negative but Higher Positive Affect in Daily Life across Clinical and Community Samples

Emotional self-efficacy (ESE) is generally associated with adaptive emotional outcomes although no research to date has examined within-person variations in self-efficacy and its impact on affective experience in daily life. Across two samples (clinical and community), greater ESE predicted lower negative but higher positive affect at the signal- and person-level.