Comparing Happiness and Hypomania Risk: A Study of Extraversion and Neuroticism Aspects.

ABSTRACT: Positive affect has long been considered a hallmark of subjective happiness. Yet, high levels of positive affect have also been linked with hypomania risk: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral characteristics that constitute a dispositional risk for future episodes of hypomania and mania. At a personality level, two powerful predictors of affective experience are extraversion and neuroticism: extraversion has been linked to positive affect, and neuroticism to negative affect. As such, a single personality trait--extraversion--has been linked to both beneficial and harmful outcomes associated with positivity. It is clear that positive affect, in different forms, has divergent consequences for well-being, but previous research has struggled to articulate the nature of these differen

SUBMITTER: Kirkland T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4498734 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature