Emotional responses to other persons in everyday life situations.

Several times a day over a period of 4 weeks, 24 housewives recorded (a) char- of their momentary situation (place, activities, other persons present);(b) their mood states; and (c) their subjective explanations of those mood states. addition to this time-sampling diary the subjects completed the 16PF test twice. type of social situations and the frequency with which they occurred to the were found to be signiicantly related to personality measures. Mood states, attributions ofmood states, actualization, and satisfaction ofmotives proved be dependent on characteristics of the person and the environment. The results discussed in terms of interaction between person and social situation.