Both research groups suggest that mastery, self-esteem, and optimism are stable personality traits representing a persons' resilience, whereas finding meaning might be seen as a process facilitated by these personality traits.
For the current study, we will utilized state anxiety to evaluate parents' current anxiety, rather than more stable personality attributes.
Within the person-situation debate, scholars have discussed whether stable personality characteristics or characteristics of the current situation predict emotional states and corresponding actions (e.g. Fleeson and Noftle 2009; Mischel 1968).
In their view, behavioral consistency does not reflect stable personality traits.
Researchers asked about the levels of positive emotion that the participants experienced – both daily mood and more stable personality traits.
The motive for success is regarded as a relatively stable personality characteristic by the time adulthood is reached.
In conclusion, alexithymia is partly a state-dependent phenomenon, but not a stable personality trait in this SUD population.
He never achieved a stable personality but was subject to violent despondencies, and he made some shockingly bitter remarks that need to be set in a sympathetic context.
We tested this hypothesis by designing messaging customized for stable personality traits— specifically, the five dimensions of the General Decision-Making Style (GDMS) instrument.
Farabaugh A, Mischoulon D, Yeung A, Alpert J, Matthews J, Pava J, Fava M. Predictors of stable personality disorder diagnoses in outpatients with remitted depression.
Yet participants used a stable personality trait — such as extroverted — rather than a fleeting emotion — such as happy— to describe the faces they saw.
