A descriptive study of emotion concepts using dimensional models of core affect / Un estudio descriptivo de los conceptos emocionales desde los modelos dimensionales de los estados afectivos

• Published in: Estudios de psicología Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 413 - 450
• Main Authors: Latinjak, Alexander T., López-Ros, Víctor, Font-Lladó, Raquel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England Routledge 04.05.2015; SAGE Publications
• Subjects: activación; affective valance; anger; anxiety; estado afectivo de ánimo; modelos dimensionales; perspectiva temporal; physiological arousal; time perspective; valencia afectiva; valencia afectiva; anxiety; activación; estado afectivo de ánimo; affective valance; time perspective; anger; perspectiva temporal; physiological arousal; modelos dimensionales
• ISSN: 0210-9395; 1579-3699
• DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2015.1026121

The study of emotions from a dimensional perspective has allowed for important steps towards the understanding of human emotional experiences. However, there are still many questions to be addressed. One, of special relevance, refers to which emotion concepts we use to refer to different emotional experiences. Thus, the primary purpose of this research was to identify which emotion concepts we use in our daily life to refer to eight specific core affects identified by the combination of valance (positive and negative), arousal (activated and deactivated) and time perspective (anticipatory and retrospective). Further, we focused on the degree of specificity of those emotion concepts and whether the levels of specificity vary among different core affects. Our results evidenced that the specificity and breadth of our emotional vocabulary varies between different core affects.