| Summary: | Social workers appreciate that emotions are an important component of the human experience. Advances in sociology offer improvements in measuring, explaining, and predicting emotions. However, empirical appraisals of theories are limited, based on researcher fabricated events, and have yet to compare theories. The purpose of this study was to test and evaluate the predictive abilities of two theories that have potential to inform social work practice and research: Affect Control Theory (ACT) and Social Interactional Theory (SIT). From subjectprovided social interactions, findings demonstrate the ability of both theodes to predict ordinary emotion. Whereas SIT predictions were generally .more precise, this accuracy would have been lost without the precise emotion measurement capabilities of ACT.
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