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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"positive affectivity"”.
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The positive project team : the impact of positive affectivity on project success
What is the impact of positive affectivity on project success? The primary purpose of this paper is to answer that question by comparing two project groups based on their psychological traits and attitudes and see whether it has an influence on project success. It is done by administering …
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The influence of biographical characteristics on emotional concerns of new first-year students at the University of Zululand
… study were identified as belonging emotions, positive affectivity, negative affectivity and pathological emotions. From the correlation analysis, the study revealed that age of the New First Year Students (NFYS) was not related to the three emotional constructs of negative affectivity, …
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The Roles of Task Hedonic Tone and Time in the Effects of Mood and Affectivity on Creativity
… this dissertation examined the effects of positive mood and positive affectivity on creativity, together with the contexts of task hedonic tone and time. The results revealed that high positive mood and a pleasant task tone were related to higher creative performance. Moreover, a pleasant …
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Emotional labour and employee well-being in the hospitality industry
… expression. Controlling for the influence of positive affectivity and general self-efficacy, hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that surface acting predicted emotional exhaustion, and deep acting predicted job satisfaction. Work-to-life conflict partially mediated the …
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The nature and antecedents of work-family enrichment
… showed that two personality characteristics, positive affectivity and self-efficacy helped predict both directions of work-family enrichment while work commitment and work engagement were shown to be significant for an individual experiencing work to family enrichment. Social support from …
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Characterizing the Nature and Structure of Child Temperament via Observational Laboratory Tasks
… of children’s temperament: sociability, positive affectivity/interest, impulsivity versus constraint, dysphoria, and fear-inhibition. Toward examining the predictive utility of these factors, associations between the five factors and parent-reported psychopathology were assessed; some …
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Effect of Priming Attachment Styles on Gratitude in Close Relationships
… securely attached individuals would have more positive affectivity than insecurely attached individuals, in general. To assess these questions, an experimental design was used to study the relationship between gratitude and attachment. State gratitude was measured by using an instrument to …
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Turnover Intentions and Turnover: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Affectivity
… and Moffitt (2005) suggested that dispositional affectivity moderates this relationship. Using a sample of 443 U.S. insurance company employees and hierarchical moderator logistic regression, I found that dispositional affectivity (i.e., positive affectivity [PA] and negative affectivity [NA]) …
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Brain structure and function associated with emotion-cognition interactions: A multi-method investigation
… differences (i.e., cognitive reappraisal, positive affectivity, optimism). Such a comprehensive approach is essential to elucidate mechanisms of emotional functioning, which will contribute to the development of novel theoretical frameworks and the design of assessment tools and …
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Dispositional Differences in Frequencies of and Reasons for Voluntary Turnover: A Latent-Class Approach
… industriousness, openness, and dispositional positive affectivity tended to quit their jobs more frequently than others. Also, six latent classes of individuals were identified based on how they placed importance on various turnover decision factors. These clusters were characterized by …
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Organisational role stress and work engagement among nurses working in intermediate hospital Oshakati, Namibia
… revealed that the majority of nurses has high positive affectivity towards their work engagement. The study further revealed that there is a strong relationship between the variables of organisational role stress and work engagement among nurses and it was clear from the analysis that there was …
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Infant-father attachment: Infant and father antecedents
… intrusiveness. Infant temperament (anger, fear, positive affect) was observed using a modified version of Goldsmith and Rothbart's Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery. When the infants were 12-months-old, father-infant attachment security was assessed in Ainsworth's Strange Situation. The …
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Examining the Effects of Display Rule Content and Individual Differences on Well-being, Performance, and Self-Regulatory Resource Depletion
… of four display rule conditions to – (a) express positive (positive display rules), (b) do not show negative (negative display rules), (c) express positive and do not show negative emotions (integrative display rules), and (d) no display rule requirements. This study found that display rules had …
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Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: an examination of cognition and attributional style
The relationship of attributional style to anxiety and depression in children and adolescents has received little attention in comparison to studies conducted with adult populations. However, preliminary studies suggest that children and adolescents evidence similar attributional style patterns to …
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Emotion Dysregulation and Psychopathology: A Structural Exploration of Emotional Factors and Positive and Negative Affect.
… the structural relationships between negative affectivity, positive affectivity, emotion reappraisal, emotion suppression, negative emotional reactivity, and poor understanding of emotions. Initial tests of a single model of emotion dysregulation suggested that the development of two separate …