Extraversion and Emotional Reactivity.
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 86 (3) , 473-485
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.86.3.473
Abstract
Six mood induction studies and a meta-analysis were conducted to test 2 models of the extraversion-pleasant affect relation. The affect-level model suggests that extraverts should be happier than introverts in both neutral and positive mood conditions. The reactivity model posits that extraverts react particularly strongly to pleasant stimuli and that they should be happier than introverts only in positive conditions. In all studies, extraverts failed to exhibit greater emotional reactivity when pleasantness items were analyzed. When activated positive affect items were analyzed, results were mixed. The meta-analysis confirmed that there is only a slight reactivity effect overall, and this effect emerges only in activated positive affect items. Furthermore, the meta-analysis showed that the correlation in neutral conditions is strong enough to support the affect-level model.Keywords
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