Negative affectivity is strongly related to life satisfaction. People who express high negative affectivity view themselves and a variety of aspects of the world around them in generally negative terms. Weight gain and mental health complaints are often experienced as well. Research shows that negative affectivity relates to different classes of variables: Self-reported stress and (poor) coping skills, health complaints, and frequency of unpleasant events. Neuroticism can plague an individual with severe mood swings, frequent sadness, worry, and being easily disturbed, and predicts the development and onset of all "common" mental disorders. The Big Five are characterized as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Trait negative affectivity roughly corresponds to the dominant personality factor of anxiety/ neuroticism that is found within the Big Five personality traits as emotional stability. Individuals differ in negative emotional reactivity. Low negative affectivity is characterized by frequent states of calmness and serenity, along with states of confidence, activeness, and great enthusiasm. Negative affectivity subsumes a variety of negative emotions, including anger, contempt, disgust, guilt, fear, and nervousness. Negative affectivity ( NA), or negative affect, is a personality variable that involves the experience of negative emotions and poor self-concept.
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