TY - JOUR
T1 - Aspects of extraversion are unrelated to pleasant affective-reactivity
T2 - Further examination of the affective-reactivity hypothesis
AU - Smillie, Luke D.
AU - Geaney, Joachim T.
AU - Wilt, Joshua
AU - Cooper, Andrew J.
AU - Revelle, William
N1 - Funding Information:
The third author would like to acknowledge the research support of NIMH (No. F31-MH093041) under the grant title ‘A New Form and Function for Personality’.
Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - Two experiments examined whether aspects of extraversion concerned with agency (leadership, dominance) and affiliation (friendliness, positive emotion) reflect susceptibility to positive affect (PA). In experiment 1, both aspects of extraversion predicted increased activated PA (vigor, excitement) following an appetitive mood induction, replicating our recent findings in this area (Smillie, Cooper, Wilt, & Revelle, 2012). Neither agentic nor affiliative extraversion predicted increased pleasant PA (contentment, satisfaction) following a pleasant mood induction. In experiment 2, induced pleasant PA was again unrelated to extraversion, as well as to two indicators of overall happiness. These observations suggest that extraverts are not generally more susceptible to PA, and that affective-reactivity cannot explain the strong relationship between extraversion and indicators of overall happiness.
AB - Two experiments examined whether aspects of extraversion concerned with agency (leadership, dominance) and affiliation (friendliness, positive emotion) reflect susceptibility to positive affect (PA). In experiment 1, both aspects of extraversion predicted increased activated PA (vigor, excitement) following an appetitive mood induction, replicating our recent findings in this area (Smillie, Cooper, Wilt, & Revelle, 2012). Neither agentic nor affiliative extraversion predicted increased pleasant PA (contentment, satisfaction) following a pleasant mood induction. In experiment 2, induced pleasant PA was again unrelated to extraversion, as well as to two indicators of overall happiness. These observations suggest that extraverts are not generally more susceptible to PA, and that affective-reactivity cannot explain the strong relationship between extraversion and indicators of overall happiness.
KW - Affective-reactivity
KW - Extraversion
KW - Happiness
KW - Positive affect
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.04.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.04.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878783283
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 47
SP - 580
EP - 587
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
IS - 5
ER -