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Basic personality traits and daily affective states: The day reconstruction method approach

Relationship of extraversion with positive affect, and of neuroticism with negative affect has been established in multiple studies. Recently, relationships not only at trait level, but also at state level are receiving increased research attention. Aim of the present study was to examine relationship between Big Five personality traits, and positive and negative affective states experienced in everyday context. The sample was consisted of 108 psychology students (Mage = 20.87, SDage = 3.31, 10.2% male), who completed measure of Big Five personality traits (i.e., extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, negative emotionality, and open-mindedness), and reported their daily affect during two consecutive days (80.6% reported their affect for both days). Affect reports were collected using the day reconstruction method approach, which is based on reconstructing episodes from previous day. Participants reported level of their positive and negative affect during each episode. Number of episodes per participant ranged from 5 to 36, and total number of analyzed episodes was 2059. Both positive and negative affect varied within participants to a larger extent than between participants. Analyses of individual relationships between each trait and daily affect indicated that experienced positive affect was negatively associated with trait negative emotionality, and positively with all other traits. Daily negative affect was positively associated with trait negative emotionality, while its associations with extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were in opposite direction. When all traits were considered simultaneously, only negative emotionality (negatively) and open-mindedness (positively) were associated with daily positive affect, and only negative emotionality (positively) was associated with daily negative affect. Results of this study provide interesting insight into personality determinants of daily affective experience, but also point to an importance of simultaneous consideration of all basic personality traits, as well as the need to further examine the nature of obtained relationships.

Big Five ; everyday context ; daily affect ; day reconstruction method

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