Differ from previous research which mainly focus on irrational decision making, using economical principle to consider how to get the maximum profit, and often say they have abilities to use each criteria for evaluating every option. They can solve their problem through analytical, rational and logical thinking. This study aim to discusses how emotional could influence on decision-making process, and people would have emotional involvement in the information selection. They would use the moment of emotion to predict and expect for future circumstances with positive emotional involvement, which the relationship is an emotional expression, and the event significant or not, depends on how important the incident to people (expected relationship would be frequency and strength). This study can improve the relationship in the decision-making play an important role.

How individuals process different affective cues, as well as how intensely they experience different emotions, may influence how efficient they are at engaging inhibitory control. To date, it is unclear if these influences differ among young adults with and without ADHD. The current study tested the variation in young adults’ inhibitory control to three affective cues (i.e., fear, happy, and neutral) in an Emotion Go/Nogo task. Results suggest better inhibitory control in response to more distinct cues (i.e., fear Nogo/happy Go). The order in which cues were presented also mattered, such that participants displayed enhanced inhibitory control when first presented with expressions that had similar valence. This task order was particularly helpful for inhibitory control engagement among young adults with ADHD. Furthermore, self-report measures suggest that young adults with ADHD were associated with higher levels of affect intensity. However, no additional relations were found in the processing of affective cues, affect intensity, and inhibitory control between young adults with and without ADHD. Results provide evidence for how affective cues and contexts differentially influence behavioral responses in young adults. Individuals with and without ADHD also appear to differ in the intensity with which they experience different emotions. Overall, the current study provides a framework for how to further explore how emotional cues and affect intensity influence inhibitory control.

People often use substances to cope with intense emotions, but more research is needed in this area. The scale we used to measure affect intensity was the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM). The participants self-reported their substance use. Drawing from a sample of adults in substance use treatment (n=118), we used regression analysis to examine the relationship between affect intensity, drug use motivations, and polysubstance use. Having this information is crucial to understanding how emotional experiences can be related to substance use. By knowing this we can also alter treatment to be specific to the individual, in order to improve the success rate of treatment facilities. More research is needed examining the relationship between affect intensity, motivation for substance use, and substance use patterns among people who are receiving substance use treatment.

ABSTRACT High levels of trauma within the South African society affect the majority of the population either directly or indirectly. In order to assist individuals overcome such traumatic incidents, many companies in South Africa have contracted with Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Providers to provide counselling to employees. These EAP counsellors are often the first mental health professionals to be exposed to a client’s traumatic story. Consequently, such counsellors may be vulnerable to compassion fatigue (CF). The consequences of EAP counsellors working with traumatised clients have been relatively unexplored. Therefore, this study proposed that EAP trauma counsellors are vulnerable within their scope of work and are an important group of professionals to be further investigated. Furthermore, leading authors in the field of trauma argue that both individual characteristics and environmental factors play a role in the development of CF. However, research into the process by which CF develops is extremely limited. Hence, this study attempted to explore this process through identifying possible core variables such as level of exposure, empathy and affect intensity and exploring their link to CF. The study was based on Figley’s (1995) Trauma Transmission Model, Dutton and Rubinstein’s (1995) Ecological Model and McRitchie’s (2006) Refined Model for Trauma Workers. The data was collected from 60 EAP counsellors, through self report measures. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics, correlations, a stepwise regression, two independent sample t-tests, and analysis of variance. Results revealed that 28.34% of the sample fell within the range for CF. There were significant correlations between Level of Exposure to traumatic material and CF; between levels of empathy and CF and between Affect Intensity and Empathy. There was no significant correlation between Affect Intensity and CF. Furthermore, the stepwise regression indicated that 56% of CF may be explained by a combination of four interacting variables, that is, Level of Exposure, Fantasy, Personal Distress and Perspective Taking.

The purpose of this study was to answer questions about affect intensity and self-perceived arousal differences in aberrant self-promoters (ASPs) and in individuals high and low in affect intensity (AI). Participants in the study completed a task asking them to respond as quickly and accurately as possible to letter strings presented for 200ms on a computer screen. They completed the task once with letter strings that formed words with an emotional valance and a second time with neutral-valence words. After each task, participants made self-reports of Energy and Tense dimensions of arousal as measured by the Activation-Deactivation Adjective Checklist. As first formulated, the study examined 4 groups of n̲ = 30 (ASPs, non-ASP controls, high-AIs, and low-AIs). Results showed that, as hypothesized, ASPs scored significantly lower than high-AIs on the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM). Other hypotheses were not supported by analyses of the original four groups. However, because about 1/3 of the ASPs exhibited high AIM scores, ASPs were divided into primary and secondary types: (a) those who scored low and (b) those who scored high on the AIM. Subsequent post hoc analyses, based on the hypotheses that had not been supported initially, were conducted on five groups of n̲ = 7. The study found that low-AI ASPs reported significantly lower arousability levels than high-AIs. Results also showed that controls, high-AIs, and low-AIs all reacted significantly more slowly to emotional words than to neutral words. Low-AI ASPs failed to demonstrate this response-time slowing, indicating that, like psychopaths, ASPs may process positive, negative, and neutral stimuli similarly. Additional results indicated that low-AI ASPs decreased both energetic and tension arousal levels after the emotional word task, compared to the neutral word task, whereas high-AIs reported corresponding increases in these types of arousal. These findings support Larsen and Diener's (1987) theory regarding arousal differences in high- and low-AIs. Implications of these findings are discussed in terms of a weak Behavioral Inhibition System (Gray, 1987). / Ph. D.

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[pt] Considerando-se que traços de personalidade impactam em muitas variáveis e contextos, a presente tese teve como objetivo verificar o poder preditivo do bemestar subjetivo sobre o comportamento de compra por impulso e sobre a escolha de itens de compra, controlando-se o efeito da personalidade. Para tanto, foram realizados quatro estudos, cujos dados foram coletados por meio de questionários disponibilizados em plataforma na internet. O primeiro estudo teve o objetivo de buscar evidências de validade da escala Hedonic Shopping Motivations. Verificaram-se evidências de validade satisfatórias para o instrumento. A mensuração desse construto testou padrões correlacionais e de predição das motivações hedônicas sobre variáveis de compra, e os resultados revelaram uma rede nomológica que favorece formulações teóricas mais robustas sobre comportamento do consumidor. O segundo estudo consistiu na busca por evidências de validade da escala Short Affect Intensity Scale (SAIS-BR) para o contexto brasileiro. Esse segundo instrumento adaptado mensura a intensidade com a qual uma pessoa experimenta emoções, concentrando-se na consistência das reações afetivas que ela costuma ter diante de estímulos emocionais. O instrumento adaptado mostrou satisfatórias evidências de validade. As diferenças individuais na intensidade afetiva foram associadas a personalidade, frequência de afetos e satisfação de vida, ampliando o conhecimento a respeito de como afetos são experimentados e sobre os impactos da intensidade afetiva no cotidiano. As correlações encontradas entre fatores da SAIS-BR e dimensões do bem-estar subjetivo reforçaram a ideia de que a dimensão emocional do bem-estar subjetivo refere-se tanto à frequência de sentimentos e emoções, quanto à magnitude de suas expressões. O terceiro estudo testou o poder preditivo do bem-estar subjetivo, da intensidade afetiva e da personalidade sobre a tendência de comprar por impulso. Além de corroborar achados anteriores sobre poder preditivo de afetos negativos, os resultados também mostraram o papel dos fatores de personalidade nessa predição, gerando novas evidências empíricas sobre compras por impulso e bemestar subjetivo no Brasil. O quarto estudo verificou o poder preditivo do bem-estar subjetivo e da personalidade sobre a preferência por compras experienciais e materiais. Os resultados mostraram a ausência de poder preditivo da frequência de afetos sobre a variável desfecho, além de indicar que algumas variáveis sociodemográficas e traços de personalidade podem predizer tais preferências dos indivíduos. No geral, os achados tiram das emoções parte da carga de responsabilidade sobre comportamentos de compra, indicando impacto leve do bem-estar sobre impulsividade nas compras e sobre escolhas de tipos de produtos. Uma importância fundamental desta tese é a produção de conhecimentos aplicáveis tanto para o campo do comportamento do consumidor quanto para o campo da psicologia positiva, destacando-se a relevância da interdisciplinaridade e da pesquisa transformativa do consumidor no Brasil. / [en] Considering that personality traits impact many variables and contexts, the present thesis aimed to verify the predictive power of subjective well-being on impulse buying behavior and on the choice of purchase items, controlling for the effect of personality. To this end, four studies were carried out and data were collected through questionnaires made available on an internet platform. The first study aimed to seek evidence of validity of the Hedonic Shopping Motivations scale. There was satisfactory evidence of validity for the instrument. The measurement of this construct tested correlational and predictive patterns of hedonic motivations on purchase variables, and the results revealed a nomological network that favors more robust theoretical formulations on consumer behavior. The second study consisted of searching for evidence of validity of the Short Affect Intensity Scale (SAIS-BR) for the Brazilian context. This second adapted instrument measures the intensity with which a person experiences emotions, focusing on the consistency of the affective reactions that they usually have when faced with emotional stimuli. The adapted instrument showed satisfactory evidence of validity. Individual differences in affective intensity were associated with personality, frequency of affections and life satisfaction, increasing the knowledge about how affections are experienced and about the impacts of affective intensity on daily life. The correlations found between SAIS-BR factors and dimensions of subjective well-being reinforced the idea that the emotional dimension of subjective well-being refers to both the frequency of feelings and emotions and the magnitude of their expressions. The third study tested the predictive power of subjective well-being, affective intensity, and personality on the tendency to buy impulsively. In addition to corroborating previous findings on the predictive power of negative affects, the results also showed the role of personality factors in this prediction, generating new empirical evidence on impulse buying and subjective well-being in Brazil. The fourth study verified the predictive power of subjective well-being and personality on the preference for experiential and material purchases. The results showed an absence of predictive power of the frequency of affections on the outcome variable, in addition to indicating that some sociodemographic variables and personality traits can predict such individual preferences. Overall, the findings remove part of the burden of responsibility on purchasing behaviors from emotions, indicating a mild impact of well-being on impulsive buying and on product choices. A fundamental importance of this thesis is the production of knowledge that is applicable both to the field of consumer behavior and to the field of positive psychology, highlighting the relevance of interdisciplinarity and transformative consumer research in Brazil.

本研究旨在探索自我傷害行為的動機、相關現象與情緒調節功能，並以此為基礎釐清該行為的情緒內涵，包括正向情緒強度特質、負向情緒強度特質、平靜滿足、經驗迴避程度及情緒調節能力。此外，本研究以因素分析探索自傷動機的分類，並以此分類結果為基礎，探討不同自傷動機所引發的情緒種類、情緒強度是否有所不同，在自傷行為的進行方式、次數上是否有顯著差異，並瞭解其無法適當應用的情緒調節能力為何。研究採用問卷調查的方式，研究對象為839位私立高中職生，包括日間部與夜間部，調查所得資料以描述統計分析、卡方檢定、相關分析、獨立樣本t檢定、相依樣本t檢定、因素分析、邏輯迴歸分析和階層迴歸分析進行處理。 本研究主要結果如下：首先支持自傷行為具有負向情緒調節的功能，而經驗迴避對於自傷行為的影響有限。其次，將自傷動機進行因素分析的結果發現可以將其分為四類：人際影響、負向感受的因應、避免失控和負向自我評價。在區分是否有自傷行為部分，情緒調節困難的不接納與無助能夠有效解釋自傷行為的有無；在影響自傷行為的頻率部分，自傷動機的強度與情緒調節困難的衝動失控能夠有效解釋自傷頻率的多寡。此外，本研究發現不同的自傷方式與不同的動機、所處的自傷前情緒有關，且不同的自我傷害動機在情緒強度特質、情緒調節困難、負向情緒和自傷方式上會呈現出不同的樣貌。 / The purpose of this study was to explore the motivations, the phenomenon, and the function of deliberate self-harm behaviors(DSH), and based on these, to clarify emotional contents behind DSH, including positive affect intensity, negative affect intensity, serenity, experiential avoidance and the emotional regulation ability. Besides, the study investigated the classification of the motivations of DSH by exploratory factor analysis, and accordingly discussed whether the affect categories and the affect intensity resulted from the motivations of DSH were different, and whether the motivations of DSH resulted in significantly different using of methods and frequencies, moreover, the emotional dysregulation. The study was based on questionnaires, and the participants were 839 students from a private senior high school , including vocational schools. Data obtained were analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, t-test, factor analysis (FA), logistic regression, and hierarchical regression analysis. The main results were as follows: First, the results supported that DSH has regulative function on negative affect, and experiential avoidance influenced DSH limitedly. Second, according to factor analysis, the motivations of DSH were classified into four categories: interpersonal influence, negative affect modulation, control, and negative self-evaluation. Moreover, nonacceptance of the emotion dysregulation could successfully distinguish students with DSH from students with no history of DSH in the past 1 year. Both intensity of motivations and impulse of the emotion dysregulation could reliably predict DSH’s frequency. Finally, different methods of DSH correlated to different motivations and different emotions before DSH, and there were various representations of affect intensity, emotion dysregulation, and methods depends on different motivations.