Positive emotionality refers to a person's tendency to experience and express pleasant emotions, like happiness, joy, and excitement. It means that a person generally has a positive outlook on life and tends to feel good more often than not.
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While sensitive - responsive parenting is generally associated
with positive emotionality in children, irritable or aggressive children tend to receive less supportive, if not problematic parenting.
While sensitive - responsive parenting is generally associated with
positive emotionality in children, irritable or aggressive children tend to receive less supportive, if not problematic parenting.
Don't worry, be happy: The role
of positive emotionality and adaptive emotion regulation strategies for youth depressive symptoms.
The figure provides an example from personality research, where twin and adoption studies converge on the conclusion of zero to small influences of shared environment on broad personality traits measured by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire
including positive emotionality, negative emotionality, and constraint.
Motor activity in childhood and mental vitality, sociability and
positive emotionality in adolescence were associated with apoE.
The current list of temperament dimensions includes three broad basic dimensions: Extraversion / Surgency, which is related to
positive emotionality, activity level, impulsivity and risk - taking; Negative Affectivity, which is related to fear, anger, sadness and discomfort; and Effortful Control, which is related to attention shifting and focusing, perceptual sensitivity, and inhibitory and activational control.
Temperament was operationalized as motor activity, cooperativeness, negative emotionality, mental vitality, sociability and
positive emotionality.
Adolescents»
positive emotionality, mental vitality and sociability were associated with apoE.
The current list of temperament dimensions includes three broad basic dimensions: Extraversion / Surgency, which is related to
positive emotionality, activity level, impulsivity and risk - taking; Negative Affectivity, which is related to fear, anger, sadness and discomfort; and Effortful Control, which is related to attention shifting and focusing, perceptual sensitivity, and inhibitory and activational control.
Continuity and discontinuity in infant negative and
positive emotionality: Family antecedent and attachment consequences.