Each of us is as it is, as it has been, it is obvious, however, have you ever wondered how the way you are being influenced by how you feel or if more positive or negative emotions appear in your life?influence the inclination of this scale?
If we are happy, our mental health will improve, we will experience greater subjective well-being and our own satisfaction with life will be greater. Find out if your personality traits make your happiness greater or, on the contrary, make negative emotions dominate your life!
? Who am I? I’m trying to find out. -Jorge Luis Borges-
Positive affection is the propensity to experience more positive than negative emotions over time, these pleasant emotions make people have a wider and richer repertoire of behaviors than those who feel more emotional discomfort, and also promote healthy lifestyle habits, making it an effective form of prevention.
This makes life satisfaction greater. This satisfaction is everyone’s perception of the quantity and quality of happiness we enjoy, but how important is this to our well-being?And not only psychologically, but also physically. High life satisfaction is linked to increased life expectancy, health and longevity.
In fact, this implies an advantage in hormonal balance, as well as other indicators of the physiological and immune system. It is also associated with greater satisfaction with social relationships (friendships and romantic relationships) and with wages and work itself. Finally, it allows us to have adaptive coping strategies, oriented to problem solving.
Various research has been conducted on how personality traits influence the types of emotions that predominate in our lives, then it was discovered that neurosis is related to negative affectivity, while extraversion is related to positive, i. e. introverts tend to score higher in negative. affection and extroverts in positive affection.
“Thoughts are the basic elements with which you will build your personality. Thought determines fate. The world around you is a reflection of your own thoughts. -Swami Sivananda-
Now let’s look at the different types of emotional personality. There are four, the first is that of self-constructive people, who get a high positive score and a low affection in the negative. This first type, of course, has higher levels of happiness or subjective well-being.
The second type of personality is the emotional high, here are people with intense affection, both for the positive and the negative, are the ones who follow, in terms of more happiness, then there are those of the third kind: the emotionally weak Who are they?Those who have low levels of both types of affection.
Finally, the least happy are those of self-destructive emotional personality, which have low levels of positive affectivity, but high levels of negative affectivity, that said, it is not difficult to imagine that their subjective well-being levels are the lowest.
These surveys also revealed that the self-constructive type has a high extraversion score and few points in neurosis, but not only that, it also gets a high score in another aspect that we haven’t mentioned yet: responsibility.
“Sometimes, in the face of the bad behavior of others, we are proud to be who we are. -André Maurois-
This personality profile is not only linked to higher levels of happiness, but is also associated with greater resilience: the ability to see difficulties as challenges to overcome and emerge strengthened, rather than seeing them as walls or insurmountable threats.
Thus, people who are not considered able to deal with situations correspond to the profile of vulnerable or inhibited. Or what’s the same: with the self-destructive type. That said, it is possible to assume that personality has a strong relationship with our health in general, influencing the different areas of our lives, such as the emotional state, with everything it means.
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