Neuroticism may not reflect emotional variability.

ABSTRACT: Neuroticism is one of the major traits describing human personality, and a predictor of mental and physical disorders with profound public health significance. Individual differences in emotional variability are thought to reflect the core of neuroticism. However, the empirical relation between emotional variability and neuroticism may be partially the result of a measurement artifact reflecting neuroticism's relation with higher mean levels-rather than greater variability-of negative emotion. When emotional intensity is measured using bounded scales, there is a dependency between variability and mean levels: at low (or high) intensity, it is impossible to demonstrate high variability. As neuroticism is positively associated with mean levels of negative emotion, this may account for the re

SUBMITTER: Kalokerinos EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7196909 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature