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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

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  • P-ISSN1229-067X
  • E-ISSN2734-1127
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Differences between Positive Affect Intensity and Negative Affect Intensity: Focused on the Personality Traits and Emotion Regulation Strategies

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2018, v.37 no.3, pp.411-439
https://doi.org/10.22257/kjp.2018.09.37.3.411


Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in the positive and negative affect intensity, which are sub-dimensions of affect intensity, focusing on the personality traits and emotion regulation strategies. For this purpose, 332 adults were administered Affect Intensity Measure, International Personality Item Pool, and Emotion Regulation Strategy Questionnaire. Correlation analysis revealed that positive affect intensity showed a positive correlation with neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, while negative affect intensity correlated positively with neuroticism and negatively with conscientiousness. Positive affect intensity showed a positive correlation with the adaptive strategies while negative affect intensity correlated positively with the maladaptive strategies and negatively with the adaptive strategies. Next, data were classified into four groups according to the level of positive and negative affect intensity, and the characteristics of each group were compared using multivariate analysis. As a result, there were significant differences among groups in neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness excluding openness. The ‘unpleasant group’ (positive low and negative high) and ‘pleasant group’ (positive high and negative low) showed higher neurotic scores than ‘calm group’ (positive low and negative low) and ‘intense group’ (positive high and negative high). In the order of ‘pleasant group’, ‘intense group’, and ‘unpleasant group’, they showed high scores in extroversion. In the emotion regulation strategies, ‘unpleasant group’ and ‘intense group’ used maladaptive strategies more often than ‘calm group’ and ‘pleasant group’, and ‘pleasant group’ and ‘intense group’ used adaptive strategies more often than ‘unpleasant group’. Finally, implications and limitations of this study were discussed.

keywords
positive affect intensity, negative affect intensity, personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, 긍정 정서강도, 부정 정서강도, 성격특성, 정서조절방략

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