Figure 1.

Graphic display of emotion network dynamics for two participants. The 4 emotion states are: Hpp = happiness, Anx = anxiety, Ang = anger, Dpr = depression. The thickness of the arrows represents the strength of the connections between any two pairs of emotions (one emotion state at time t−1 and the other at time t across days). To facilitate comparisons between both networks, the maximum thickness of the arrows was set to the maximum connection strength across both networks (a value of 0.38). The network on the left is associated with an overall affect network density score of 1.06 while the network on the right has a score of 1.60. These values were chosen to represent networks with density values at +/− 1 standard deviation (0.27) around the mean (1.33). Thus, the network on the left is a less dense emotion network relative to the network on the right. The networks were constructed using qgraph in R (Epskamp et al., 2012).