Mood and Temperament

David Watson

• 02 maart 2000
• 9781572305267

Samenvatting:

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current knowledge in everyday affective experience. It gives attention to basic theoretical and measurement issues and examines both short term and long term mood fluctuations.

Much has been learned about mood and temperament in recent years--yet until now, investigations into these domains have remained relatively distinct and disconnected. This groundbreaking volume presents a comprehensive framework for understanding short-term mood fluctuations and their relationship to longer-term differences in temperament and emotionality. David Watson integrates key findings from both literatures within the context of his own ongoing 20-year research program on daily mood. Illuminated are the basic properties of everyday moods, the processes that produce change, and the connections between affective experience, personality, health, and psychopathology. Providing a clear summary and synthesis of a vast body of knowledge, this unique book will be of interest to readers across a wide range of psychological disciplines.