Emotional Reactivity to Everyday Problems, Affective Inertia, and Neuroticism

Suls, Jerry; Green, Peter; Hillis, Stephen L.

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“…Research has demonstrated a central role of N in the reactivity to a variety of threatening cues such as emotional (especially aversive) stimuli (Gross, Sutton, & Ketelaar, 1998;Norris, Larsen, & Cacioppo, 2007), negative feedback (Larsen & Ketelaar, 1989) and the occurrence of daily problems (Suls, Green, & Hillis, 1998). This evidence is consistent with a conceptualization of N as tapping into people's predisposition to react vigilantly to threatening cues.…”

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Neuroticism predicts reactions to cues of social inclusion

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In the current paper, we hypothesized that people who are high in neuroticism (N) share a motivational predisposition to react vigilantly to threatening cues, most of which tend to be social in humans. In three studies, support for this prediction was found: based on cross-sectional and diary data, it was found that the self-esteem (SE) of individuals high in N decreases more in response to perceptions of relationship conflict and low relationship quality than that of emotionally stable ones. In a study of people's reactions to imagined threats, neurotic individuals showed a heightened sensitivity to both nonsocial and social cues, though reactions to social cues were somewhat more pronounced. Results are consistent with principles from evolutionary and process-oriented personality psychology.

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Neuroticism predicts reactions to cues of social inclusion

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“…For example, individuals high in Neuroticism experience more stressful events, whereas those high in Extraversion experience both more stressful and more pleasurable events (Bolger and Schilling, 1991;Fergusson and Horwood, 1987;Magnus et al, 1993;Suls et al, 1998). Moreover, Neuroticism predisposes people to experience negative emotions and distress, regardless of level of stress (Bolger and Schilling, 1991;Watson and Clark, 1984.…”

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Personality factors and psychopathy, alexithymia and stress

Singh

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2011

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

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“…Individuals who are emotionally unstable describe themselves as emotional, impatient with others, and intolerant toward ambiguous situations (De Caroli & Sagone, 2009). They are also more likely to experience negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, depression, or irritability (Suls, Green, & Hillis, 1998). Several studies found a positive association between emotional instability and creativity (e.g.…”

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Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: linear and curvilinear effects

Coelho

Lages

Sousa

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. *Corresponding author AcknowledgmentWe are grateful to Marlene Noronha for her assistance with data collection and the comments of participants of the 2014 AMS World Marketing Congress. Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: Linear and curvilinear effectsPrevious studies have investigated the relationship between the Five Factor model of personality and creativity. As this model has been criticised for providing a limited account of an individual's personality, this study considers additional personality traits that have recently been investigated in the literature as determinants of employee behaviour. Moreover, we also contribute to the existing body of literature by conducting this study in a services setting, for which we predict personality traits will exert differentiated effects on creativity when compared to other settings. Finally, while past research has focused on linear effects, this study examines the existence of nonlinear effects between personality and creativity. The results indicate that personality traits apart from the Five Factor model have an impact on creativity and that the effects of several personality traits on the creativity of frontline service employees differ from those obtained in other settings. Lastly, the findings also show that five of the personality traits have non-linear effects on creativity, and this may be a stimulus for a new stream of research in the human resources literature.Keywords: creativity; personality; service employees; linear and curvilinear effects Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: Linear and curvilinear effects IntroductionCreativity refers to the development of ideas about goods, services, processes, and practices, which are novel and likely to be useful to an organisation (Shalley, Zhou, & Oldham, 2004).Whereas creativity reflects the development of these ideas at the individual level, innovation concerns the organisational implementation of such ideas (Amabile, 1996). Due to the belief that creativity is paramount not only to greater customer experiences and customer satisfaction (e.g. Coelho, Augusto, & Lages, 2011;Daly, Grove, Dorsch, & Fisk, 2009), but also organisational innovation and ultimately performance (Amabile, Barsade, Mueller, & Straw, 2005;Chen, Shih, & Yeh, 2011;Jiang, Wang, & Zhao, 2012;Liu, 2013), employee creativity has been attracting growing research attention (e.g. Probst, Stewart, Gruys, & Tierney, 2007). Creativity ...

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Emotional Reactivity to Everyday Problems, Affective Inertia, and Neuroticism

Cited by 345 publications

References 47 publications

Neuroticism predicts reactions to cues of social inclusion

Neuroticism predicts reactions to cues of social inclusion

Personality factors and psychopathy, alexithymia and stress

Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: linear and curvilinear effects

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