PSY102 Chapter Notes -Neuroticism, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Painful childhood: a focus on external success. The following traits are linked to childhood adversity (carver et al. , A difficult childhood places a person at risk of experiencing a high degree of negative emotion. They may be prone to depression, worry, anger, panic, or other forms of anxiety. Once the person is upset, it may be hard to recover. These emotional difficulties are understandable given that the person probably experienced a lot of difficult emotions as a child, without learning how to manage them: anger and aggression. Related to high neuroticism, childhood adversity also predisposes a person to be angry, hostile, and verbally or physically aggressive. These behaviors may have been learned from observing them as a child; they may also have developed as a protective measure against loss or maltreatment: low agreeableness. Those who were mistreated or neglected early in life are more likely to be hard to get along with and to get into frequent arguments.
