Anxious Personality Traits: Perspectives from Basic Emotions and Neurotransmitters

Dong, Jie; Xiao, Tingwei; Xu, Qiuyue; Liang, Fei; Gu, Shanqiang; Wang, Fushun; Huang, Jason H.

doi:10.3390/brainsci12091141

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“…Neural alteration might underlie the behavioral phenotype of resilience. Latest review indicates a correlation between personality traits and emotions, and both depend on monoamine neurotransmitters (dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin) ( 78 ). Fundamental and clinical studies have demonstrated that decreased serotonin (5-HT) ( 79 ) and noradrenergic (NE) ( 80 ) are closely correlated with depression.…”

Section: Research Evidence For Resilience To Depressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience to depression: Implication for psychological vaccination

Dai

Smith²

2023

Front. Psychiatry

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From the vulnerability perspective, we often ask the question “why someone suffers from depression?” Despite outstanding achievements along this line, we still face high occurrence or recurrence and unsatisfied therapeutic efficacy of depression, suggesting that solely focusing on vulnerability perspective is insufficient to prevent and cure depression. Importantly, although experiencing same adversity, most people do not suffer from depression but manifest certain resilience, which could be used to prevent and cure depression, however, the systematic review is still lack. Here, we propose the concept “resilience to depression” to emphasize resilient diathesis against depression, by asking the question “why someone is exempted from depression?” Research evidence of resilience to depression has been reviewed systematically: positive cognitive style (clear purpose in life, hopefulness, et al.), positive emotion (emotional stability, et al.), adaptive behavior (extraversion, internal self-control, et al.), strong social interaction (gratitude and love, et al.), and neural foundation (dopamine circuit, et al.). Inspired by these evidence, “psychological vaccination” could be achieved by well-known real-world natural-stress vaccination (mild, controllable, and adaptive of stress, with help from parents or leaders) or newly developed “clinical vaccination” (positive activity intervention for current depression, preventive cognitive therapy for remitted depression, et al.), both of which aim to enhance the resilient psychological diathesis against depression, through events or training. Potential neural circuit vaccination was further discussed. This review calls for directing attention to resilient diathesis against depression, which offers a new thinking “psychological vaccination” in both prevention and therapy of depression.

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Section: Research Evidence For Resilience To Depressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience to depression: Implication for psychological vaccination

Dai

Smith²

2023

Front. Psychiatry

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“…We are the first to hypothesize that there might be three primary emotions: joy, disgust and fear ( Figure 1 ) ( Gu, et al, 2018 ), which can be combined to form many other emotions like the three primary colors ( Liang, et al, 2021 ). We also integrated the three primary emotion with emotional dimensions, and hypothesized that the joy represents the left pole of valence, while the disgust represents the right pole of valence, and the fear (together with anger) represents the vertical pole of dimension (arousal) ( Figure 1 ) ( Gu et al, 2019b ; Jiang et al, 2022 ; Dong et al, 2022 ).…”

Section: Neuromodulators Regulate Brain Energy Supplymentioning

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Editorial: Natural products and brain energy metabolism: Astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases Volume II

Wang

Fang

et al. 2023

Front. Pharmacol.

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“…Yet, self-initiating information-seeking behavior is not equivalent to being self-directed with respect to assessing information once it is accessed. Rather, the focus of the extraverted individual when turning to others as potential sources of information is maintaining a pleasurable interaction [137] not determining if the information provided corresponds with what they personally value given the situation [138]. In contrast, the key feature of self-directed learners is adaptability [139] based on personal values and although the individual displaying extraversion is readily adaptable to others and their points of view, this person is not adaptable to challenging others in a crisis situation, such as COVID-19 has been, because they are not guided by what they personally value [140].…”

Section: Other -Directed Versus Self-directed Learning In Extraversio...mentioning

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Extraversion in COVID-19 Coping

Nash¹

2023

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Extraversion, a Big Five personality trait, has been identified as a significant factor in COVID-19 positive coping—yet, relevant research is conflicting. Studies have not situated the influence of extraversion within a geographical and historical context. Thus, a sound base is lacking for assessing when opposing results regarding extraversion and COVID-19 positive coping are likely to result. Furthermore, extraversion with respect to COVID-19 coping has not been considered concerning other-directed learning in contrast to self-directed learning. To establish a sufficiently sound base, an examination of the range of high-ranking Google Scholar results on extraversion and COVID-19 coping from different countries during the pandemic’s various waves—pre and post vaccine introduction—is undertaken. The same are then considered for insights into public opinion. Following, extraversion is compared with other-directed learning and differentiated from self-directed learning. An understanding is thus presented for assessing when extraversion will necessarily be an effective personality trait for COVID-19 positive coping and when it will not. Extraversion’s effect will be found inherently inconsistent for identifying COVID-19 positive coping as a result, because of its dependence on other-directed learning. The conclusion: COVID-19 positive coping stability is contingent on personal values that guide self-directed learning, rather than other-directed extraversion.

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Anxious Personality Traits: Perspectives from Basic Emotions and Neurotransmitters

Cited by 20 publications

References 113 publications

Resilience to depression: Implication for psychological vaccination

Resilience to depression: Implication for psychological vaccination

Editorial: Natural products and brain energy metabolism: Astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases Volume II

Extraversion in COVID-19 Coping

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