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Specifically, a positive mood may lead to more positive expectations concerning source trustworthiness or likability than a negative mood. As a consequence, people in a positive mood should be more surprised when they encounter an untrustworthy or dislikable source rather than a trustworthy or likable source.
Mood swings in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Mood changes erratically [76] with episodic mood swings rising in the period of recovery process. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] Characterized by temporary fluctuations in negative affect (anxiety, irritability, shame, guilt) and self-esteem, reactive to environmental reminders, [ 79 ] difficulty to control ...
Habitual negative affect and negative mood is characteristic of high neuroticism. [43] Positive affect and negative affect represent independent domains of emotion in the general population, and positive affect is strongly linked to social interaction. Positive and negative daily events show independent relationships to subjective well-being ...
Valence is an inferred criterion from instinctively generated emotions; it is the property specifying whether feelings/affects are positive, negative or neutral. [2] The existence of at least temporarily unspecified valence is an issue for psychological researchers who reject the existence of neutral emotions (e.g. surprise , sublimation). [ 2 ]
Negative affectivity subconsciously signals a challenging social environment. Negative mood may increase a tendency to conform to social norms. [1] In a study, college students were exposed to a mood induction process. After the mood induction process, participants were required to watch a show with positive and negative elements.
Mood disorders fall into seven groups, [2] including; abnormally elevated mood, such as mania or hypomania; depressed mood, of which the best-known and most researched is major depressive disorder (MDD) (alternatively known as clinical depression, unipolar depression, or major depression); and moods which cycle between mania and depression ...
Cognitive mood repair strategies are primarily concerned with the ability of recognizing emotional upset and taking one of three courses of action. An individual can choose to evaluate the feelings of dysphoria and better understand the source of the negative mood to give the individual a sense of control of his or her mood. [5]
Some models propose that rumination is focused on negative feeling states and/or the circumstances surrounding that emotion (RST, rumination on sadness, five-factor model, [27] negative cognitive style, [28] social phobia [29] models). Rumination in other models focuses on discrepancies between one's current and desired status (goal progress ...