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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"affective traits"”.
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Associations between affective traits and endothelial function in depressed adults
… at greater risk of developing CVD? Because other affective traits – i.e., anxiety, hostility/anger, and low trait positive affect – have also been associated with increased CVD risk, depressed adults with higher levels of these co-occurring affective traits may have an elevated risk of developing …
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An Examination of the Relationships Between Affective Traits and Existential Life Positions
… associations between life positions and affective traits. Two hundred seventy-seven students enrolled in undergraduate psychology classes at a large university volunteered for the study. Concurrent validity of scores for the life position scale was supported based on two compared …
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Creativity and Affective Traits Across the Life Span: Developmental Influences Among Adolescents and Older Adults
… an association between susceptibility to affective illness and creativity at the level of eminent achievement and at the non-eminent, or "everyday creativity" level. Although this research has provided greater evidence for the existence of this link, it has simultaneously unearthed more …
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The Self Perceptions of School Principals Compared to Their Actual Performance on Certain Affective Traits
… in the operation of a school system, and affective behavior is an essential part of that role. It was the purpose of the study to determine if a discrepancy exists between the self-perceptions of principals as affective educators and their actual performance.</p> <p>Method. Thirty-two …
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Impact of affective traits on response interference: modulations by trait negative affect, anxious arousal, and anxious apprehension
… NA did not modulate attentional scope. However, affective traits interacted to predict flanker interference under high load central-foil conditions. Higher NA and AD were associated with increased interference, but higher AA mitigated this effect. Positive affect was also found to predict …
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Affective influences on top-down visual attention
… of this thesis was to investigate the impact of affective influences on visual attention. This was achieved using three different approaches: exploring the impact of emotion, the effects of stimuli valence, and the contribution of inter-individual differences in affective traits. Across five …
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Personal Cognition and the Affect Regulation Process: Affect Reactivity, Affect Regulation Ability, and Responses to Cognitive Errors.
… tendencies and a number of personality and affective: i.e. emotional) traits. While several mechanisms have been suggested to explain these links, the exact reasons for the observed effects remain unclear in a number of circumstances. The current research examines the potential underlying …
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Pathways of Psychopathic Traits to Aggression Through Affective Correlates
… relationship between psychopathic personality traits and aggression within an undergraduate sample. The project addresses three gaps in research – how psychopathic personality traits relate to empathy facets from a recently developed measure of empathy (Affective and Cognitive Measure of …
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Approach/avoidance motivation and goal maintenance: implications for models of executive function
… at least in part via associations with affective traits. Positive and negative emotionality are fundamental components of these motivational dispositions and have been linked in some studies to a broadening (approach motivation) and a narrowing (avoidance motivation) of attention. …
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Functional neuroimaging studies of peripheral inflammation-related depression
… peripheral inflammation reorients response to affective experience in depression. In Chapter 4, I first investigated sociodemographic, clinical, behavioral and immune variability in the analyzable cohort (N = 129; Ndepression = 83). BMI and sex differed significantly between the low CRP (N = …