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Neuroticism may reflect emotional variability when correcting for the confound with the mean
Mario WenzelThomas Kubiaksubject
NeuroticismMultidisciplinary05 social sciencesEmotionsIndividuality050401 social sciences methods050109 social psychologyNeuroticism0504 sociology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesLettersPsychologyAssociation (psychology)Negative emotionClinical psychologydescription
Kalokerinos et al. (1) demonstrate that emotional variability, as assessed via the SD, is not significantly associated with neuroticism once the confound with mean negative emotion is controlled for, r = 0.05. To control for this confound, the authors use the relative SD (RSD), which mathematically corrects for the nonlinear dependency between the SD and the mean (2). The authors prefer the RSD over including the SD and the mean of negative emotions in a model, given the nonlinearity of their association. While we agree that the RSD is an important addition to the field, we argue that including the mean of emotions is still necessary when examining the association between neuroticism and emotion variability, to 1) sufficiently control for the confound with the mean and 2) compare the individual contribution … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: wenzelma{at}uni-mainz.de. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1
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| 2020-11-24 |