Integrating personality, daily life events and emotion: Role of anxiety and positive affect in emotion regulation dynamics

Anne Congard (1) , Bruno Dauvier (1) , Pascal Antoine (2) , Pierre-Yves Gilles (1)

1 PsyCLÉ - Centre de Recherche en Psychologie de la Connaissance, du Langage et de l'Émotion
2 URECA - Unité de Recherche en Sciences Cognitives et Affectives

We investigated the roles of anxiety and positive affect in emotion regulation, looking simultaneously at personality, daily life events, and affects. We hypothesized that individual differences in the temporal dynamics of affective experience related to trait anxiety would manifest themselves both in affective responsiveness to life events and in homeostatic regulatory forces. Data were collected from 49 adults, who rated their affective state three times a day over a 40-day period. Data were analyzed using a dynamical system model and graphical representations in the form of vector fields. Results showed that anxiety chiefly interacted with home base (attractor) positions as a function of life events. It also influenced the shape of positive affectivity trajectories in response to negative events. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)

Mots clés: ACL

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Psychologie

Anne Congard, Bruno Dauvier, Pascal Antoine, Pierre-Yves Gilles. Integrating personality, daily life events and emotion: Role of anxiety and positive affect in emotion regulation dynamics. Journal of Research in Personality, 2011, 45 (4), pp.372 - 384. ⟨10.1016/j.jrp.2011.04.004⟩. ⟨hal-01772368⟩