Question

What scientific evidence exists to establish a relationship between stress, personality, and negative mood? Explain whether the evidence is reliable or not.

Answer 1

• I deem the relationship among stress, personality, and negative mood is closely intertwined since our physical, emotional, psychological, social, spiritual, cultural, and behavioral domains are so interconnected. If we exude a negative, grump personality and demeanor, then we tend to feel pessimistic, exhibit less resilience to stress, and demonstrate a more bleak mood, in general.
• Personality features are associated with individual differences in daily emotional life, such as negative and positive affectivity, affect variability and affect reactivity.
• Alterations in emotional life, especially experiencing strong and persistent negative affect, are closely related to internalizing disorders. Personality features are known to be associated in many ways with individual differences in emotional life, such as negative affect and affect reactivity. It is possible that this could be one of the factors mediating the link between personality features and psychopathology.
• For example experiencing higher negative affect and being more reactive to stressors in daily life could indicate vulnerability to internalizing disorders.
• Personality features may also be associated with stress exposure. Individuals with high neuroticism tend to report more negative events in their daily lives. On the other hand, extraversion might protect from stressors and predict more positive daily life events. (The Effect of Personality on Daily Life Emotional Processes)
• Amother article examines the influence of daily stressors on mental health in a community sample. Samples were 166 married couples who completed diaries each day for 6 weeks. In pooled within person analyses, daily stressors explained up to 20% of the variance in mood. Interpersonal conflicts were by far the most distressing events. Furthermore, when stressors occurred on a series of days, emotional habituation occurred by the second day for almost all events except interpersonal conflicts. Contrary to certain theoretical accounts, multiple stressors on the same day did not exacerbate one another's effects; rather, an emotional plateau occurred. Finally, on days following a stressful event, mood was better than it would have been if the stressor had not happened. These results reveal the complex emotional effects of daily stressors, and in particular, they suggest that future investigations should focus primarily on interpersonal conflicts. (Effects of Daily Stress on Negative Mood)
• Researches and evidence do suggest that all these three are interconnected with each other and provide strong evidence that is helpful for treating psychological disorders.