Emotional (in)stability: Neuroticism is associated with increased variability in negative emotion after all.

ABSTRACT: The personality trait neuroticism is tightly linked to mental health, and neurotic people experience stronger negative emotions in everyday life. But, do their negative emotions also show greater fluctuation? This commonsensical notion was recently questioned by [Kalokerinos et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112, 15838-15843 (2020)], who suggested that the associations found in previous studies were spurious. Less neurotic people often report very low levels of negative emotion, which is usually measured with bounded rating scales. Therefore, they often pick the lowest possible response option, which severely constrains the amount of emotional variability that can be observed in principle. Applying a multistep statistical procedure that is supposed to correct for this dependency,

SUBMITTER: Mader N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10266024 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature