Catalog
Negative affectivity in personality disorder or personality difficulty
Link to WHO Definition
Negative affectivity in personality disorder or personality difficulty – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/953246526
The core feature of the Negative Affectivity trait domain is the tendency to experience a broad range of negative emotions. Common manifestations of Negative Affectivity, not all of which may be present in a given individual at a given time, include: experiencing a broad range of negative emotions with a frequency and intensity out of proportion to the situation; emotional lability and poor emotion regulation; negativistic attitudes; low self-esteem and self-confidence; and mistrustfulness.