The influence of neuroticism and psychological symptoms on the assessment of images in three-dimensional emotion space

Steffen Walter, Henrik Kessler, Sascha Gruss, Lucia Jerg-Bretzke, Andreas Scheck, Jochen Ströbel, Holger Hoffmann, Harald C Traue, Steffen Walter, Henrik Kessler, Sascha Gruss, Lucia Jerg-Bretzke, Andreas Scheck, Jochen Ströbel, Holger Hoffmann, Harald C Traue

Abstract

Objective: The present study investigated the influence of neuroticism (NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI)) and psychological symptoms (Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)) on pleasure, arousal, and dominance (PAD) ratings of the International Affective Picture System (IAPS).

Methods: The subjects (N=131) were presented with images from the IAPS (30 images) and new images (30 images). The influence of neuroticism and BSI (median split: high vs. low) on the assessment of pleasure, arousal and dominance of the images was examined. Correlations of pleasure, arousal and dominance were presented in a 3-D video animation.

Results: Subjects with high scores (compared to subjects with low scores by median split) of neuroticism and psychological symptoms of the BSI rated the presented emotional images more negative in the valence dimension (pleasure), higher in arousal and less dominant.

Conclusion: Neuroticism and psychological symptoms influence the subjective emotional evaluation of emotional images. Therefore the location in the three-dimensional emotion space depends on individual differences. Such differences must be kept in mind, if correlations between emotion ratings and other variables like psychobiological measures are analyzed.

Keywords: emotion space; emotion stimuli; personality; psychological symptoms.

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Table 1. Influence of neuroticism (high vs.…
Table 1. Influence of neuroticism (high vs. low, median split = 2.67) on pleasure (V), arousal- (A), dominance (D) ratings by categories (T test, one-sided, scale: 1–9, N=131, M = means and SD = standard deviation)
Table 2. Influence of the Brief Symptom…
Table 2. Influence of the Brief Symptom Inventory (high vs. low) on pleasure (V), arousal (A), dominance (D) ratings by categories (T test, one-sided, scale: 1–9, N=131, M = mean and SD = standard deviation)
Table 3. Influence of the Brief Symptom…
Table 3. Influence of the Brief Symptom Inventory (detailed, high vs. low) on pleasure (V), arousal (A), dominance (D) ratings by categories (T test, one-sided, scale: 1–9, N=131, M = mean and SD = standard deviation)
Table 4. Ratings of new images (30…
Table 4. Ratings of new images (30 images; N=131) for pleasure, arousal, dominance

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