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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY
Volume 73, Issue 6, Pages 1485-1509Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00356.x
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- NINR NIH HHS [NR04886] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [46488] Funding Source: Medline
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This article describes a series of studies using the daily process paradigm to describe and understand the affective dynamics of people who experience frequent and intense bouts of a wide range of negative emotions. In several studies, community residents reported on problem occurrence and affect several times a day or at the end of the day. We found reliable evidence that persons who scored high (vs. low) in Neuroticism reported more daily problems, tended to react with more severe emotions, experienced more mood spillover from prior occasions, and exhibited stronger reactions to recurring problems (the neurotic cascade). The susceptibility of neurotics to stress seems to extend to all types of problems while certain other dimensions of personality (e.g., Agreeableness) are associated with hyperreactivity to particular kinds of problems. The research demonstrates how daily process research can provide insight about classic problems in the field of individual differences.
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