The empirical examination of personality characteristics related to the experience of strong negative emotions and the associated physiological response may help account for idiosyncratic responses to life events in schizophrenia. The current study examines the relationship between levels of neuroticism and arousability and physiological and emotional reactivity during the viewing of film clips with differing emotional valance. Data were collected on emotional and cardiovascular and cortisol reactivity across experimental conditions for a sample of outpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia and a comparison group of nonpsychiatric controls. Levels of both neuroticism and arousability were significantly associated with increased negative emotion and physiological reactivity during the negative film clip task, although different patterns emerged across participant groups. Most notably, trait characteristics were inversely related to heart rate reactivity in patients but not controls. This relationship remained significant even after we controlled for disengagement coping behaviors. Cortisol response was not related to personality characteristics in either participant group. Findings were generally consistent with previous research, providing additional evidence for the role of trait characteristics in the response to events.

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电影剪辑范例对精神分裂症人格特质特征和反应性的比较研究。

对与强烈的负面情绪和相关的生理反应有关的人格特征进行实证检验可能有助于解释对精神分裂症生活事件的特质反应。当前的研究检查了在观看具有不同情感价调的影片剪辑期间神经质和可唤醒性水平与生理和情感反应之间的关系。收集了关于在实验条件下被诊断为精神分裂症的门诊患者和非精神病对照组的样本的情绪，心血管和皮质醇反应性的数据。负片剪辑任务期间，神经质和可唤醒性水平与负性情绪和生理反应性的增加显着相关，尽管不同的参与者群体出现了不同的模式。最值得注意的是，患者的特征特征与心率反应性成反比，而与对照组无关。即使在我们控制了脱离接触应对行为之后，这种关系仍然很重要。任一参与者组的皮质醇反应均与人格特征无关。研究结果通常与以前的研究一致，为特征特征在事件响应中的作用提供了补充证据。