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Negative affectivity

Afetividade negativa

Category

Definition

A tendency to experience a broad range of distressing emotions, e.g. anxiety, anger irritability, depression, and other negative emotional states, often in response to even relatively minor actual or perceived stressors.

Inclusions

  • negative emotionality
  • proneness to negative emotional states

Index Terms

Negative affectivitynegative emotionalityproneness to negative emotional statesneuroticism