Emotional reactivity to everyday problems, affective inertia, and neuroticism

被引:298
作者
Suls, J [1 ]
Green, P [1 ]
Hills, S [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Iowa, Dept Psychol, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
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10.1177/0146167298242002
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
A naturalistic diary recording study was conducted to assess affective responses to everyday stress. Community-residing male participants made diary recordings regarding problem occurrence and mood several times a day for 8 days. In addition to reporting more frequent daily problems, persons scoring high in neuroticism were more reactive to stressors and were more distressed by recurrent Problems than were persons scoring low in neuroticism. New problems affected everyone comparably. There was also evidence of affective inertia, such that bad mood was more likely to carry over to the next assessment. This lag effect tended to be stronger among more neurotic individuals.
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