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The aim of the research described in the article was to check whether the anxiety perceived as a personality trait and experienced fear affect the perception of oneself in the scope of liked and disliked traits. The screening study involved 570 students, from whom 90 women qualified to one of three groups: low-anxious (n = 30), high-anxious (n = 30) and repressive (n = 30) individuals distinguished in the D.A. Weinberger, G.E. Schwartz, and R.J. Davidson concept. The research task, which was aimed at arousing fear, was to give a few minutes’ speech in front of an audience of experts and a camera about the liked and disliked personality traits. In addition to the questionnaire methods, an objective method of measuring the facial expression of emotions was used – Facial Action Coding System FACS (P. Ekman) and a list of 300 traits by A.E. Abele and B. Wojciszke, for which the following semantic parameters were estimated: agency, community, competence, morality, individualism, collectivism, femininity, and masculinity. The research revealed, among others, that the repressive persons prefer traits that have a higher morality rate compared to people who are truly low-anxious. The trait anxiety positively correlated with communality, morality, and femininity. The experienced fear negatively correlated with agency, competence, masculinity, individualism, and positively with femininity.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/j.2018.31.4.197-217
Date of publication: 2019-04-26 10:22:43
Date of submission: 2018-08-02 01:35:58
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