Distress, emotional well‐being, and sleep quality in daily life: A dual‐continuum perspective

We examined whether daily distress and emotional well-being form related but distinguishable dimensions, as suggested by a dual-continuum perspective, and how they relate to perceived sleep quality. Evening diaries assessed these variables in 831 university students over 14 days. Emotional well-being comprised positive affect and life satisfaction, whereas distress comprised emotional exhaustion, depressed affect, anxiety, and negative affect. Multilevel confirmatory factor analysis supported two correlated within-person higher order factors over a single higher order factor, with a factor cor