The role of negative affectivity and social inhibition in perceiving social threat: An fMRI study

Abstract. Positive affectivity (PA) and negative affectivity (NA) are basic traits that affect work-related perceptions and behaviors and should be considered in any assessment of these variables. A quite common method to assess healthy or unhealthy types of work-related perceptions and behaviors is the questionnaire on Work-Related Coping Behavior and Experience Patterns (WCEP). However, the association of PA and NA with WCEP remained unclear. In a sample of teachers, physiotherapists, and teacher students ( N = 745; Mage = 35.07, SD = 12.49; 78% females), we aimed to identify the relevance of these basic traits. After controlling for age, gender, and type of occupation, we found main effects of PA and NA, with the specific combination of PA and NA being decisive for predicting the assignment to a WCEP type. The results highlight the need to include PA and NA in future assessments with the WCEP questionnaire.

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Anxiety and aggression: The role of social threat, intent attribution, and emotion regulation

10.31274/etd-20200624-48 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Anna Therese Wehde

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Social Threat

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of An FMRI study of the role of the medial temporal lobe in implicit and explicit sequence learning.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.1012850.187153 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Wendy Suzuki

Keyword(s):

Temporal Lobe ◽

Sequence Learning ◽

Medial Temporal Lobe ◽

Fmri Study ◽

Implicit And Explicit

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Psychological contract breach and voluntary turnover among newcomers: the role of supervisor trustworthiness and negative affectivity

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.1017/jmo.2020.43 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Émilie Lapointe ◽

Christian Vandenberghe

Keyword(s):

Psychological Contract ◽

Negative Affectivity ◽

Voluntary Turnover ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Psychological Contract Breach ◽

Contract Breach ◽

Indirect Relationship ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Abstract This article looks at the relationship between psychological contract breach and voluntary turnover among newcomers, using supervisor trustworthiness as a mediator and negative affectivity as a moderator. Relying on data from 243 newcomers, psychological contract breach was found to be negatively related to the three dimensions of supervisor trustworthiness, i.e., ability, benevolence, and integrity. Supervisor integrity further mediated a positive relationship between psychological contract breach and voluntary turnover measured 8 months later. Psychological contract breach interacted with negative affectivity such that it was less negatively related to dimensions of supervisor trustworthiness at high levels of negative affectivity. The indirect relationship of psychological contract breach to voluntary turnover as mediated by supervisor integrity was also weaker at high levels of negative affectivity. We discuss the implications of these findings for research and practice.

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Automaticity and Reestablishment of Executive Control—An fMRI Study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ◽

10.1162/jocn.2006.18.8.1331 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 18 (8) ◽

pp. 1331-1342 ◽

Cited By ~ 77

Author(s):

Andrea Kübler ◽

Veronica Dixon ◽

Hugh Garavan

Keyword(s):

Executive Control ◽

Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex ◽

Search Task ◽

Visual Search Task ◽

Cortical Activation ◽

Automatic Behavior ◽

Automatic Response ◽

Fmri Study ◽

Dorsolateral Prefrontal

The ability to exert control over automatic behavior is of particular importance as it allows us to interrupt our behavior when the automatic response is no longer adequate or even dangerous. However, despite the literature that exists on the effects of practice on brain activation, little is known about the neuroanatomy involved in reestablishing executive control over previously automatized behavior. We present a visual search task that enabled participants to automatize according to defined criteria within about 3 hr of practice and then required them to reassert control without changing the stimulus set. We found widespread cortical activation early in practice. Activation in all frontal areas and in the inferior parietal lobule decreased significantly with practice. Only selected prefrontal (Brodmann's areas [BAs] 9/46/8) and parietal areas (BAs 39/40) were specifically reactivated when executive control was required, underlining the crucial role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in executive control to guide our behavior.

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Diversity and Out-Group Attitudes in the Netherlands: The Role of Authoritarianism and Social Threat in the Neighbourhood

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies ◽

10.1080/1369183x.2013.876895 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 40 (9) ◽

pp. 1414-1430 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Jasper Van Assche ◽

Arne Roets ◽

Kristof Dhont ◽

Alain Van Hiel

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Social Threat

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Latent Memory of Unattended Stimuli Reactivated by Practice: An fMRI Study on the Role of Consciousness and Attention in Learning

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0090098 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. e90098 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Julia D. I. Meuwese ◽

H. Steven Scholte ◽

Victor A. F. Lamme

Keyword(s):

Attention In Learning ◽

Fmri Study

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Beyond Fundamental Dimensions of Mood in Predicting Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation in Victims of Interpersonal Violence: Examining the Role of Dispositional Optimism in Chinese Females With and Without Experience of Victimization

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/10778012211030951 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122110309

Author(s):

Yifeng Du ◽

Olivia D. Chang ◽

Mingqi Li ◽

Misu Kwon

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Suicidal Ideation ◽

Prediction Model ◽

Interpersonal Violence ◽

Suicide Risk ◽

Negative Affectivity ◽

Dispositional Optimism ◽

Hierarchical Regression ◽

Regression Analyses

The present study tested a prediction model involving affectivity and dispositional optimism as predictors of suicide risk (i.e., depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation) in young adult Chinese females with and without prior interpersonal violence (IPV) victimization (294 nonvictimized and 94 victimized females). Results of hierarchical regression analyses indicated that negative affectivity was a significant predictor of both depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation for Chinese females, regardless of IPV victimization. Beyond affectivity, dispositional optimism was found to further add to the prediction model of depressive symptoms in both groups, but only for suicidal ideation in the IPV victimized group.

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