Travel and residual emotional well-being

Margareta Friman; Lars E. Olsson; Michael Ståhl; Dick Ettema; Tommy Gärling

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2017.06.015

Travel and residual emotional well-being

Margareta Friman^*, Lars E. Olsson, Michael Ståhl, Dick Ettema, Tommy Gärling

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Abstract

This study addresses the question of how work commutes change positive versus negative and active versus passive mood experienced after the commutes. Analyses are presented for 230 time-sampled morning commutes to work, made by 146 randomly sampled people in three different Swedish cities, asking them to use smartphones to report mood before, directly after, and later in the work place after the commute. The results show that self-reported positive emotional responses evoked by critical incidents are related to mood changes directly after the commute but not later in the day. It is also shown that satisfaction with the commute, measured retrospectively, is related to travel mode, travel time, as well as both positive and negative emotional responses to critical incidents.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	159-176
Number of pages	18
Journal	Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
Volume	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2017.06.015
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2017

Funding

Financial support was obtained through grant 2014-05335 from the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems. We thank Cecilia Bergstad Jakobsson and Jana Huck for reading and commenting on the manuscript.

Keywords

Critical incident
Emotional well-being
Satisfaction
Work commute

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