APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Gender Moderates Change in Positive Affect in a Frustration Task

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Lillian Shattuck
    Middlebury College
  • Athena Nooney
    Middlebury College
  • Martin Seehuus
    Middlebury College

Abstract

Gender moderated change in positive affect (PA) with frustration task. Participants (N=44) completed the PANAS before and after an unsolved puzzle. PA rose for women and not men, R2 = .45, p < .001, βinteraction = 5.26, p = .044. PA measurement and intervention should consider this gendered response.

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