with a high positive affectivity have healthier coping styles, more positive self-qualities, and are more goal oriented. Positive affectivity also promotes...

Negative affectivity subsumes a variety of negative emotions, including anger, contempt, disgust, guilt, fear, and nervousness. Low negative affectivity is...

The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) is a self-report questionnaire that consists of two 10-item scales to measure both positive and negative...

and affectivity (an individual's overall disposition or temperament, which can be characterized as having a generally positive or negative affect). In...

pivots which determine the positive affectivity and negative affectivity of a person. These two dimensions of dispositional affect are bipolar, distinct and...

extraverts respond more to positive affect than to negative affect, since they exhibit more positive-affect reactivity to the positive-affect induction, yet they...

this research describes the role of negative affectivity and positive affectivity. Negative affectivity is related strongly to the personality trait of...

study abroad experience. Affectivity is an emotional disposition: people who are high on positive affectivity experience positive emotions and moods like...

Negative affectivity Positive affectivity Self-report inventory Ekkekakis, Panteleimon; Russell, James A. (2013). The Measurement of Affect, Mood, and...

more or less Positive affectivity, the psychological capability to respond positively Positive psychology, a branch of psychology Positive statement, in...

comes an increased ability to maintain both high positive affectivity and low negative affectivity “more rapidly than adolescents.” This response to...

an agreement, and the final negotiated outcomes. Positive affectivity (PA) and negative affectivity (NA) of one or more of the negotiating sides can lead...

as hormone secretion also affect personality. For example, the hormone testosterone is important for sociability, affectivity, aggressiveness, and sexuality...

direct engagement with teachers. Personality psychology Positive affectivity Negative affectivity Temperament Blandon, Alysia Y.; Calkins, Susan D.; Keane...

of positive emotion on the cognitive mind and there is speculation that positive mood can affect our minds in good or bad ways. Generally, positive mood...

importance. More specifically, affective reactions are pleasant or unpleasant reactions that provide information on positive ('good') and negative ('bad')...

1176/ajp.153.10.1293 Watson, D., Clark, L., & Carey, G. (1988). Positive and negative affectivity and their relation to anxiety and depressive disorders. Journal...

of anticipatory positive affect, mediating both the motivation (i.e. incentive salience) to engage with reward, as well as the positive emotions associated...

are nine primary affects. Tomkins characterized affects by low/high intensity labels and by their physiological expression: Positive: Enjoyment/Joy (reaction...

the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is known for her research on positive affectivity and mental...

derives from behavior-genetic studies that have found that positive and negative affectivity each have high heritability (40% and 55% respectively in one...

know about a lesbian's sexual orientation, the more anxiety, less positive affectivity, and lower self-esteem she has. Further, Gay.com states that closeted...

job satisfaction. Although affective disposition does influence job satisfaction, a measure of positive or negative affectivity does not explain unique variance...

Positive psychology is the scientific study of conditions and processes that contribute to positive psychological states (e.g., contentment, joy), well-being...

discreet or obvious. The display of positive emotions, such as smiling, laughing, etc., is termed "positive affect", while the displays of more negative...

life can permanently alter affective processing. Lesioning the amygdala causes blunted affect responses to both positive and negative stimuli. This effect...

Kindness priming is an affect-dependent cognitive effect in which subjects will display a positive affect following exposure to kindness. Kindness priming...

originally created by Watson and Tellegen in 1985, suggests that positive affect and negative affect are two separate systems. Similar to the vector model, states...

emotion that encompasses a range of positive feelings, from contentment to intense joy. It is often associated with positive life experiences, such as achieving...

enjoyment of something Positive affectivity, a human characteristic that describes how much people experience positive affects Pleasant may also refer...