The Interpersonal Nature of Self-Talk Dataset

This is the dataset associated with a daily diary study designed to explore the stylistic quality of people’s reflective self-talk and the effects of those qualities on emotion immediately following that self-talk. Participants engaged in reflective self-talk each day about one positive and one negative event from that day. Participants rated the emotional intensity of each daily event which served as the inspiration for an occasion of self-talk. Occasions of self-talk were rated on the interpersonal circumplex octants with a novel measure created for this study (OLIPS), both by participants themselves and later by independent raters. Participants also reported their positive and negative affect following each instance of self-talk (I-PANAS-SF; Thompson, 2007). Participants also completed a number of trait-level measures either before the diary study or on a follow-up visit after the study: Interpersonal Self-Talk Scale (Price, 2015) Forms of Self-Criticising/Attacking & Self-Reassuring Scale (FSCRS; Gilbert et al., 2004) Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scales (IAS-R; Wiggins, Trapnell, & Phillips, 1988) Neuroticism Scale from the Big Five Version of the Revised Interpersonal Adjectives Scales (IASR-B5; Trapnell & Wiggins, 1990) Data was collected from university undergraduates in southern Ontario, Canada. The data set is associated with the following paper: Lefebvre, J.P., Sadler, S., Hall, A., & Woody, E. (2022). The interpersonal nature of self-talk: Variations across individuals and occasions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000405