The Affective Individual: The Influence of Self-Structure on The Experience of Discrete and Mixed Emotions

• Other Authors: Blackmon, C. William (author)
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Florida Atlantic University
• Subjects: Emotions.; Self-perception.; Self-esteem.; Emotional intelligence.; Self-organizing systems.
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004910

Coherence of self-concept refers to the ability to stabilize on a clear set of views about oneself. This aspect of self-structure is closely linked self-esteem, and similar evidence in emotion research suggests an intricate connection between the self-system and emotion. Evidence suggests that emotions of seemingly opposing valence such as happy and sad can co-occur (i.e., mixed emotion). This study validated a new set of emotional stimuli particularly to elicit mixed emotion and used these stimuli with a mouse task that allowed participants to report positive and negative emotions simultaneously. The study examined possible individual differences in discrete emotional response associated with self-esteem as well as a possible connection between selfconcept coherence and a differential ability to harbor mixed emotions; specifically that individuals with high coherence in self-concept would tend to disambiguate their emotional response, but those with low coherence would be more susceptible to cooccurring positive and negative emotion. === Includes bibliography. === Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. === FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection