Social Undermining, Support Satisfaction, and Affect: A Domain-Specific Lagged Effects Model

Using a latent variable structural equation modeling approach, relations among social undermining, support satisfaction, and affect were studied in a sample of 330 college students. Longitudinal analyses revealed lagged reciprocal relations over a 1-week interval between (1) social undermining and negative affect and (2) support satisfaction and positive affect. Cross-domain associations, by comparison, were nonsignificant; social undermining was unrelated to positive affect and social support was uncorrelated with negative affect. These results provide support for a domain-specific model of social relations and affect.