In Determinants of Emotion Duration and Underlying Psychological and Neural Mechanisms by Verduyn et al, the authors discuss various dispositions that account for how long an emotional effect lasts:ResilienceDepression levelExtraversion and neuroticismExtraversion and neuroticism are two components of the OCEAN model of personality. How were these two attributes determined to be most important when it comes to dealing with emotions? What is the relation between personality and disposition?
Relation between disposition personality in emotional response
cognitive psychology;emotion;personality
Those two personality factors can be considered as a component of disposition. Two publications established that extraversion and neuroticism as being the most correlated with emotional processing.In Adding Liebe und Arbeit: The Full Five-Factor Model and Well-Being from McCrae et al (1991), the authors correlated three measure of weel-being with 429 adult men and women.Consistent with previous rescarch, neuroticism was negatively, and   extraversion was positively, related to well-being. Both agreeableness  and conscientiousness were also significant independent predictorsIn The happy personality: a meta-analysis of 137 personality traits and subjective well-being by DeNeve et al (1998) examine 137 personality constructs across 9 literature search strategies to find determine the effect on positive and negative affect.The traits most closely associated with SWB were  repressive-defensiveness, trust, emotional stability, locus of  control-chance, desire for control, hardiness, positive affectivity,  private collective self-esteem, and tension. When personality traits  were grouped according to the Big Five factors, Neuroticism was the  strongest predictor of life satisfaction, happiness, and negative  affect. Positive affect was predicted equally well by Extraversion and  Agreeableness.