Trait-State-Experience Pathway: Temperament and Affect Survey of 714 Students

714 university students completed surveys linking affective temperaments to momentary emotional experience. The study found that hyperthymic temperament was the strongest predictor of Positive Affect (B = 13.00, p <.001), and 10 bootstrapped indirect effects were significant. Davin Nabizadehchianeh published this data on Harvard Dataverse in 2026.

Use Cases

• Train models to predict momentary emotional experience based on temperament scores.
• Analyze mediation pathways between trait-level dispositions and state-level affect.
• Investigate sex as a potential moderator in temperament-emotion relationships.
• Validate structural equation models for trait-state-experience hierarchies.

Strengths

• Dataset includes responses from 714 participants, providing a substantial sample size.
• Internal consistency for the total scale is reported as KR-20 = .80.
• Analyses include confirmatory factor analysis and bootstrapped mediation with 5,000 resamples.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data reflects a convenience sample of university students, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Survey data collected from a convenience sample of university students.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:32:43; freshness should be verified.