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Negative emotion differentiation: Its personality and well-being correlates and a comparison of different assessment methods
Erbas, Yasemin Ceulemans, Eva Pe, Madeline Lee Koval, Peter Kuppens, Peter
Erbas, Yasemin
Ceulemans, Eva
Pe, Madeline Lee
Koval, Peter
Kuppens, Peter
Abstract
Previous research has shown that individual differences in negative emotion differentiation may play a prominent role in well-being. Yet, many basic questions about negative emotion differentiation remain unanswered, including how it relates and overlaps with related and known dimensions of individual differences and what its possible underlying processes are. To answer these questions, in the current article we present three correlational studies that chart the nomological network of individual differences in negative emotion differentiation in terms of personality, difficulties in identifying and describing feelings, and several indicators of well-being, propose a novel paradigm to assess it in the lab, and explore relationships with a possible underlying mechanism in terms of the motivation to approach or avoid emotions. The results affirm consistent relations between negative emotion differentiation and indicators of adjustment like negative affect, self-esteem, neuroticism, depression and meta-knowledge about one's emotions, and show how it is related to the motivation to experience affective states.
Keywords
Emotion, Emotion differentiation, Individual differences, Personality, Well-being
Date
2014
Type
Journal article
Journal
Cognition and Emotion
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Volume
28
Issue
7
Page Range
1196-1213
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