Our paper on #wellbeing after the outbreak of war in #Ukraine is out today with #openaccess @NatureComms! https://t.co/fJKGwvxqZA This paper represents a collaborative effort of >50 authors to unveil the psychological implications of the war. For a summary, read the thread! 🧵1/9

New #SPSPblog: Are Narcissistic People Happy? by @JulianScharbert https://t.co/tiJIB5RttN

New Study🔔 If you *were* happy and you know it… read this Experience Sampling Methods study, finding that retrospective well-being judgments were disproportionately influenced by the peak and end experiences from the assessment period. https://t.co/o0TXObS0CA

💡The amazing @drsmillie has written an excellent summary of our recent paper on #wellbeing in the wake of the outbreak of war in #Ukraine for @ConversationEDU 👏 Check it out below!

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Finally, I want to express a big THANK YOU to the engaged team of co-authors who invested their time and resources to help with this big project. 9/9

In summary, our analyses show that the psychological dimension of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war should not be neglected. In particular, individuals living in Europe with existing vulnerabilities (i.e., low trait Stability) might be struggling to cope with the crisis. 8/9

We also investigated whether the daily salience of the war on social media (approximated by the number of Tweets each day containing the keyword #Ukraine) was associated with daily well-being levels, which was indeed the case. This graphic shows the two trajectories. 7/9

We also investigated various other potential moderators of the well-being changes (e.g., age, gender, political orientation), but personality traits were the only group of variables for which we found credible evidence that they influenced the well-being trajectories. 6/9

Our preregistered analyses showed a large heterogeneity in how quickly individuals recovered from the decline in well-being, and these recovery effects were strongly associated with trait Stability (a combination of Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and low Neuroticism). 5/9

We fit various multilevel models to the data to identify the one that best approximated the change in well-being around the outbreak of war. The best-fitting model indicated linear trends before/after the Russian invasion on Feb 24 and a sudden drop in well-being on that day. 4/9

While these dimensions are immediately visible, the psychological implications might be more difficult to trace. Here, we used international experience-sampling data to track well-being levels across Europe during the weeks surrounding the outbreak of war. 3/9

@NatureComms The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022, has had devastating effects on the Ukrainian population and the global economy, environment, and political order. The UN estimates that 1.6 billion people in 94 countries are exposed to at least one dimension of the crisis. 2/9

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out! Finally, I want to express my gratitude to my engaged team of co-authors 🫶 Thanks to Katharina Utesch, Thomas F. Reiter, Julian ter Horst, Maarten van Zalk, Mitja D. Back, and Richard Rau! 9/9

Rather, our findings emphasize the importance of differentiating between momentary and retrospective well-being assessments and stress the importance of selecting an appropriate measurement approach on the basis of these conceptual considerations. 8/9

However, these findings should not imply that state assessments are superior to one-time, trait assessments. Both approaches have unique strengths and rather assess different aspects of the self (e.g., the “experiencing self” and the “remembering self”). 7/9

These findings point towards potential ways to mitigate peak/end effects when attempting to retrospectively learn about individuals experienced well-being rather than their remembered well-being (e.g., try to make your item prompts more specific!). 6/9

However, these effects depended on the item framing of the retrospective judgment (stronger for more global vs. more specific framings) and conceptualizations of peaks and ends (e.g., stronger for peak/end weeks than peak/end states), as illustrated in this figure: 5/9

We tried to address limitations and inconsistencies in prior studies on the topic and relied on four ESM samples (N = 1,889) to show that retrospective well-being judgments indeed were disproportionally influenced by peak and end experiences in the assessment period. 4/9