Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between personality and mood. Within the mood realm, it is possible to identify separate higher-order dimensions of positive affect and negative affect. In addition, individuals may differ in terms of both their mean mood level and their mood variability. These are theoretical reasons for predicting that all of these aspects of mood should be related to the higher-order personality dimensions of extraversion and neuroticism. The subjects in this study completed a mood questionnaire three times a day over a period of three weeks. Mean mood levels were best predicted by extraversion, but mean negative affect was also strongly related to neuroticism. Mood variability was related to extraversion and to neuroticism, with neurotic extraverts having the greatest mood variability and stable introverts having the smallest mood variability. The strength of the observed effects indicates that individual differences in mean mood and mood variability are determined in an important way by personality characteristics.
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