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Everything about Negative affectivity
Personal tendency towards negative emotions and poor self-concept
In psychology, negative affectivity (NA), or negative affect, is a personality variable that involves the experience of negative emotions and poor self-concept. Negative affectivity subsumes a variety of negative emotions, including anger, contempt, disgust, guilt, fear, and nervousness. Low negative affectivity is characterized by frequent states of calmness and serenity, along with states of confidence, activeness, and great enthusiasm. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Negative affectivityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A meta‐analysis of the associations of elements of the fear‐avoidance model of chronic pain with negative affect, depression, anxiety, pain‐related disability and pain intensityInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Die Macht negativer AffekteThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.Cited 31,862 times
- Go sideways: Affect (psychology)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Positive affectivityA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
Negative affectivity: The disposition to experience aversive emotional states.
The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS): Construct validity, measurement properties and normative data in a large non‐clinical sample
Health complaints, stress, and distress: Exploring the central role of negative affectivity.
Development and Validation of an Internationally Reliable Short-Form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
Origins and functions of positive and negative affect: A control-process view.
The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex
🆕 Influential since 2022
A meta‐analysis of the associations of elements of the fear‐avoidance model of chronic pain with negative affect, depression, anxiety, pain‐related disability and pain intensity
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Stress-Induced Network Reconfigurations Reflect Negative Affectivity
Concurrent and prospective associations between infant frontoparietal and default mode network connectivity and negative affectivity
Preconception maternal posttraumatic stress and child negative affectivity: Prospectively evaluating the intergenerational impact of trauma
Association of Antenatal COVID-19–Related Stress With Postpartum Maternal Mental Health and Negative Affectivity in Infants
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Die Macht negativer AffekteJürgen Straub · 2019
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