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Richard E Lucas¹, Kimdy Le, Portia S Dyrenforth

¹Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. lucasri@msu.edu

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Extraverts experience more positive emotions, a finding supported by direct temperament models. While social activity and situational reactions play a role, a direct link between extraversion and positive affect remains significant.

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Background:

The link between extraversion and positive affect is a well-established finding in personality and emotion research.
Temperament and instrumental models offer competing explanations for this association.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate instrumental mechanisms that may mediate the relationship between extraversion and positive affect.
To test mediation and person-by-situation interaction models against a direct temperament model.

Main Methods:

Two experience sampling studies were conducted.
Data were analyzed to assess the roles of social activity and situational reactions in mediating the extraversion-positive affect link.

Main Results:

Weak support was found for instrumental mediation models.
Extraverts' greater social activity and more positive reactions to social situations partially explained the association.
A significant direct association between extraversion and positive affect persisted after controlling for instrumental factors.

Conclusions:

The findings provide limited support for instrumental models explaining the extraversion-positive affect link.
Consistent with temperament models, a direct association between extraversion and positive affect is strongly supported.
Personality traits like extraversion may have a direct, inherent influence on emotional experience.