Surgency
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Surgency is a noun meaning (psychology) A trait aspect of emotional reactivity in which a person tends towards high levels of positive affect.
Meaning
(psychology) A trait aspect of emotional reactivity in which a person tends towards high levels of positive affect.
Example Sentences
The Big Five Model of Personality categorizes traits into the dimensions of surgency, agreeableness, adjustment, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.
Contextual or collective surgency is likely to enhance personal well-being, curiosity, and value for friendship, as well as creativity. In the first place, personal surgency has fostered creativity (Feist 2010; M. Wang et al. 2017).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hyperemotivity, turgency, resurgency, reactiveness, agentiveness, hyperaggressiveness.
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