Self-System and Regulation of Negative Affect [Selbstsystem und Regulation negativen Affekts]

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The present thesis examines evidence for the self-relaxation assumption of Personality-Systems-Interactions (PSI) theory, i.e. the involvement of the self-system in the intuitive downregulation of negative affect. Chapter 1 introduces PSI a self-regulation theory that explains personality and behavior according to the dynamic interplay of neuropsychological systems. Chapter 2 provides an evaluation of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT) that indirectly assesses affect via judgments about the phonetic resemblance between artificial pseudo-words and mood adjectives. The test shows remarkable reliability for each scale as well as good factorial, construct and criterion-based validity. Chapter 3 presents an experiment that investigates the extent to which self-activation (experimental presentation of self-referential terms such as my bed, my body, etc.) after stress exposure affects negative and positive affect as measured by both the IPANAT and an explicit affect scale

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