This lends empirical evidence to the assumption that in dealing with stress, single mothers are more likely to use a passive, emotion-focused coping strategy, which relies on emotional venting.
As expected, we found that a low level of passive, emotion focused coping, such as wishful thinking, was associated with stable high life satisfaction.
The common dimensions are determined through two types: the valence of emotion, reflecting either positive or negative emotions, and the arousal level of emotion, reflecting either active or passive emotion [ 6, 8]. Figure 2 is a 2D valence-arousal emotional model.
Medical students who sustained high levels of life satisfaction perceived medical school as interfering less with their social and personal life, and made less use of passive, emotion focused coping, such as wishful thinking, than did their peers.
The results of this study stress the importance of making time for personal and social life while in medical school, and the advantage of avoiding the use of passive, emotion focused coping, such as wishful thinking.
It is, Spinoza maintained, only our passive emotions that can produce conflict with the dictates of our reason; our active affects accord well with reason.
Spinoza likewise contrasts passions and the "common measure" of reason, but conceives it in terms of his contrast between what is active in us and the merely passive emotions.
These data indicate that the hypothalamus plays an integral role to instantiate emotion states, and is not simply a passive effector of upstream emotion centers.
"In my previous relationships, I'd been a passive passenger of the emotions," he says.
Here, we assessed brain mechanisms of music emotion processing in bvFTD directly, using functional MRI (fMRI) and a passive listening paradigm that manipulated two levels of emotion analysis musical mode and dissonance in simple chord sequences.
