Events-Affect-Personality: A Daily Diary Investigation of the Mediating Effects of Affect on the Events-Personality Relationship

Our 10-day diary investigation anchored in dynamic personality theories, such as Whole Trait Theory examined (a) whether within-person variability in two broad personality traits Extraversion and Neuroticism is consistently predicted by daily events, (b) whether positive and negative affect, respect...

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Published inPsychological reports p. 332941231175363
Main Authors Ion, Andrei, Georgescu, Andrei, Iliescu, Dragos, Nye, Christopher D., Miu, Andrei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 06.05.2023
Subjects
diary
within-individual variation
affect
neuroticism
extraversion
Personality
events
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Summary:Our 10-day diary investigation anchored in dynamic personality theories, such as Whole Trait Theory examined (a) whether within-person variability in two broad personality traits Extraversion and Neuroticism is consistently predicted by daily events, (b) whether positive and negative affect, respectively partly mediate this relationship and (c) the lagged relationships between events, and next day variations in affect and personality. Results revealed that personality exhibited significant within-person variability, that positive and negative affect partly mediate the relationship between events and personality, affect accounting for up to 60% of the effects of events on personality. Additionally, we identified that event-affect congruency was accountable for larger effects compared to event-affect non-congruency.
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ISSN:0033-2941
1558-691X
DOI:10.1177/00332941231175363