Performance during Stress: Affective Personality, Age, and Regularity of Physical Exercise

By Torsten Norlander, Sven-Åke Bood, Trevor Archer. 2002

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In order to study the role of stress upon performance as a function of age and personality type, participants were derived from three different occupational categories. Performance ability during stress and health condition of participants were studied through application of the Stroop Color and Word Test, the Stress and Energy Instrument, the Glare Pressure Test and systolic blood pressure measurements - whereas the four different personality types were derived through application of the Positive Affect (PA) and Negative Affect (NA) scales. It was found that self-actualization individuals (i.e. those demonstrating high positive affect and low negative affect) showed the best performance under the influence of stress whereas the high affective (i.e. high positive affect and high negative affect) showed the lowest levels of systolic blood pressure during resting. No differences in performance during stress were found between the younger and older participants encompassed by high positive affect, whereas an age difference was shown for high negative affect individuals. Regularity of exercise was associated with high positive affect and contributed to the ability of older participants to attain levels of performance comparable with those of younger participants.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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• Adolescents’ Psychological Well-Being and Memory for Life Events: Influences on Life Satisfaction with Respect to Temperamental Dispositions (2009, background): “The affective temperament classification is developed in an orthogonal manner through a persons’ PA and NA (measured by PANAS), generating four different temperaments: selfactualizing (high PA, low NA); high affective (high PA, high NA); low affective (low PA, low NA); and self-destructive (low PA, ”
• Does Infant Happiness Forecast Adult Life Satisfaction? Examining Subjective Well-Being in the First Quarter Century of Life (2015, background): “…and affective profiles (e.g., high positive affect and high negative affect, low positive affect and high negative affect) in adults (e.g., Norlander et al. 2002) that could be used to gain further understanding of individual differences by testing whether one’s affective profile in…”