Neuroticism
Neuroticism: Sensitive/nervous vs. secure/confident.
Thetendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety,depression, and vulnerability. Neuroticism also refers to the degreeof emotional stability and impulse control and is sometimes referred to by itslow pole, "emotional stability".
According to Eysenck's (1967) theoryof personality, neuroticism is interlinked with low tolerance for stress oraversive stimuli. Those who score high in neuroticism are emotionallyreactive and vulnerable to stress.
They are more likely to interpretordinary situations as threatening, and minor frustrations as hopelesslydifficult. Their negative emotional reactions tend to persist for unusuallylong periods of time, which means they are often in a bad mood.
For instance,neuroticism is connected to a pessimistic approach toward work, confidence thatwork impedes personal relationships, and apparent anxiety linked with work. Furthermore,those who score high on neuroticism may display more skin conductancereactivity than those who score low on neuroticism.
These problems in emotionalregulation can diminish the ability of a person scoring high on neuroticism tothink clearly, make decisions, and cope effectively with stress lackingcontentment in one's life achievements can correlate with high neuroticismscores and increase one's likelihood of falling into clinical depression.
Moreover,individuals high on neuroticism tend to experience more negative life events, butneuroticism also changes in response to positive and negative life experiences.At the other end of the scale, individuals who score low in neuroticism areless easily upset and are less emotionally reactive.
They tend to be calm,emotionally stable, and free from persistent negative feelings. Freedom fromnegative feelings does not mean that low scorers experience a lot of positivefeelings.
Neuroticism is similar but not identical to being neurotic inthe Freudian sense (i.e. neurosis.) Some psychologists prefer to callneuroticism by the term emotional stability to differentiate it from the termneurotic in a career test.
Sample itemsI get irritated easily.I get stressed out easily.I get upset easily.I have frequent mood swings.I worry about things.I am much more anxious than most people.I am relaxed most of the time. (reversed)I seldom feel blue. (reversed)
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