Open AccessRelationship between emotional reactivity to visual stimuli and basic personality traits
Author(s) -
Аnđela Šoškić,
B Dejan Djurovic,
Goran Opačić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psihologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1451-9283
pISSN - 0048-5705
DOI - 10.2298/psi200517029s
Subject(s) - psychology , aversive stimulus , valence (chemistry) , reactivity (psychology) , trait , big five personality traits , personality , conscientiousness , correlation , developmental psychology , social psychology , extraversion and introversion , chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , geometry , mathematics , organic chemistry , pathology , computer science , programming language
Two studies with the same goal, but different instruments, investigated the correlation between basic personality traits and electrodermal reactivity to aversive visual stimuli. Study 1 focused on the Five Factor Model traits, while in Study 2, we investigated the HEXACO model, and an additional trait, Disintegration. In Study 1, emotional reactivity was expressed using Polyscore, a composite polygraph measure in which electrodermal response (EDR) had the largest weight, and it was measured with respect to stimuli with positive, neutral, and negative valences. In Study 2, we employed several measures of EDR to stimuli with negative valence. In both experiments, Conscientiousness correlated positively with EDR to aversive stimuli. Additionally, in Study 2, there was a negative correlation between Disintegration and EDR to aversive stimuli. Other traits were not related to EDR to aversive stimuli, and, in Study 1, we found no relationship between personality traits and reactivity to stimuli with positive or neutral valence.