Individual differences in core affect variability and their relationship to personality and psychological adjustment

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 262-274

  Kuppens, Peter ^a   Van Mechelen, Iven ^a   Nezlek, John B ^b   Dossche, Dorien ^a   Timmermans, Tinneke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Core affect; Mood variability; Personality; Psychological adjustment; Within person variability

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF ESTEEM; VARIANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; CHARACTER; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS;

EID: 34249077512     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.262     Document Type: Article

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