Affective state, stress, and Type A-personality as a function of gender and affective profiles

Schütz, Erica; Garcia, Danilo; Archer, Trevor

doi:10.5861/ijrsp.2013.450

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“…About the relevant differences for sex (but not for classes), results were in line with the previous findings provided by research of De Caroli & Sagone (2016), according to which boys tended to bounce back adversities using humor more than girls; with the findings observed by Schütz et al (2013) and by Schütz, Garcia, & Archer (2014), according to which girls expressed higher levels of negative affect than boys; and, with the evidences of Caprara et al (2006) in the superiority of boys for managing of negative emotions compared to girls in terms of perceived self-efficacy.…”

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The Relationship of Positive Affect with Resilience and Self-Efficacy in Life Skills in Italian Adolescents

Sagone¹,

Indiana²

2017

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The main purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships of positive affect with dimensions of resilience and perceived self-efficacy in life skills in a sample of 147 Italian healthy adolescents. We used the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the Resiliency Attitudes and Skills Profile (RASP), and the Perceived Self-Efficacy Scales in Life Skills. Statistical analyses indicated that adolescents with high positive affect reported higher levels of perceived self-efficacy in life skills than those with low positive affect; in addition, adolescents with high positive affect reached higher levels of resilience (that is, adaptability and engagement) than those with low positive affect. Given the relationship of positive affect both with dimensions of resilience and perceived self-efficacy in life skills, future investigations could better understand the functioning of protective factors actively engaged in facing up to the transition from childhood to adolescence, in line with the flourishing approach in supporting the promotion of psychological well-being and the increasing of individual's bio-psycho-social skills.

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The Relationship of Positive Affect with Resilience and Self-Efficacy in Life Skills in Italian Adolescents

Sagone¹,

Indiana²

2017

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“…Across both samples of females, the prevalence of the self-destructive profile was 28%, while among men was 25%. The prevalence of this profile reported here among males and females is the same that was observed among Swedes (Schütz, Garcia & Archer, 2013).…”

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“…Finally, since median splits distort the meaning of high and low, it is plausible to criticize the validity of the procedure used here to create the different affective profilesscores just-above and just-below the median become high and low by fiat, not by reality (Schütz, Archer & Garcia, 2013 Reviewing Manuscript affective profile model was replicated using the k-means cluster analysis and the four affective profiles emerged as the combinations of high vs. low affectivity. The procedure used by these researchers is useful for person-oriented analyses (see Bergman, Magnusson et al, 2003), thus, suggesting the original procedure by Archer as valid.…”

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Peer Review #2 of "The affective profiles in the USA: happiness, depression, life satisfaction, and happiness-increasing strategies (v0.1)"

Johansson¹

2013

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Background. The affective profile model categorizes individuals as self-fulfilling (high positive affect, low negative affect), high affective (high positive affect, high negative affect), low affective (low positive affect, low negative affect), and self-destructive (low positive affect, high negative affect). The model has been used extensively among Swedes to discern differences between profiles regarding happiness, depression, and also life satisfaction. The aim of the present study was to investigate such differences in a sample of residents of the USA. The study also investigated differences between profiles with regard to happiness-increasing strategies. Methods. In Study I, 900 participants reported affect (Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule; PANAS) and happiness (Happiness-Depression Scale). In Study II, 500 participants self-reported affect (PANAS), life satisfaction (Satisfaction With Life Scale), and how often they used specific strategies to increase their own happiness (Happiness-Increasing Strategies Scales). Results. The results showed that, compared to the other profiles, self-fulfilling individuals were less depressed, happier, and more satisfied with their lives. Nevertheless, self-destructive were more depressed, unhappier, and less satisfied that all other profiles. The self-fulfilling individuals tended to use strategies related to agentic (e.g., instrumental goal-pursuit), communal (e.g., social affiliation), and spiritual (e.g., religion) values when pursuing happiness. Conclusion. These differences suggest that promoting positive emotions can positively influence a depressive-to-happy state as well as increasing life satisfaction. Moreover, the present study shows that pursuing happiness through strategies guided by agency, communion, and spirituality is related to a self-fulfilling experience described as high positive affect and low negative affect.

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“…Consequently, Norlander et al [43] identified four affective profiles: a profile characterized by people who scored high in PA and low in NA (Self-Fulfilling affective profile), a profile with participants who scored low in both dimensions (Low affective profile), other profile characterized by individuals who scored high in PA and NA (High affective profile), and a profile with people who scored low in PA and high in NA (Self-Destructive profile). This typology of affective profiles has been used in subsequent studies, and it has been analyzed in adolescent samples that the Self-Fulfilling profile relates to high scores in life satisfaction or happiness and low scores in depression and stress, whereas the Self-Destructive profile is characterized by the opposite [39,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. Consequently, the Self-Fulfilling profile seems to be associated with adaptive dimensions, whereas the Self-Destructive profile associates with maladaptive dimensions.…”

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Factorial Invariance, Latent Mean Differences of the Panas and Affective Profiles and Its Relation to Social Anxiety in Ecuadorian Sample

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Positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) are related with aspects that are part of people’s psychological well-being, and the possibility of combining both dimensions to create four affective profiles, self-fulfilling (high PA and low NA), low affective (low PA and low NA), high affective (high PA and high NA) and self-destructive (low PA and high NA), has recently appeared. The current work aims to validate the short version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) in Ecuador, test the existence of the four affective profiles and analyze its relation with social anxiety. The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children and the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents was employed in a sample of 1786 Ecuadorian students aged from 15 to 18 years (M = 16.31, SD = 1.01). The factorial invariance of the scale across sex and age groups was proved and latent mean analyses showed that girls and 18-year-old students obtained the highest scores in negative affect. With regard to the affective profiles, the cluster analyses confirmed the existence of the four mentioned profiles, and the self-fulfilling profile obtained the lowest scores in all the dimensions of social anxiety, whereas the self-destructive profile obtained the highest scores.

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Affective state, stress, and Type A-personality as a function of gender and affective profiles

Cited by 23 publications

References 69 publications

The Relationship of Positive Affect with Resilience and Self-Efficacy in Life Skills in Italian Adolescents

The Relationship of Positive Affect with Resilience and Self-Efficacy in Life Skills in Italian Adolescents

Peer Review #2 of "The affective profiles in the USA: happiness, depression, life satisfaction, and happiness-increasing strategies (v0.1)"

Factorial Invariance, Latent Mean Differences of the Panas and Affective Profiles and Its Relation to Social Anxiety in Ecuadorian Sample

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