Abstract
The study explores the influence of the Big Five personality traits and the individual mood regulative types toward mood improvement/deterioration (increasing, decreasing, hot and cool type) on automatic and controlled mood changes. Subjects (N = 218) were assigned to one of four mood regulative types after fulfilling NEO-FFI. Direct (Mood Adjective Check List) and indirect (Emotional Lexical Decision Task) measurements were used to assess mood changes, which were studied by manipulating both mood states and the level of cognitive loading. Different patterns of results were obtained for increasing and decreasing types in negative mood. While a high Neuroticism and a low Extraversion in decreasing type contribute to a stronger negative mood increment during both high and low cognitive loading conditions (automatic mood deterioration), a high Extraversion and a low Agreeableness in increasing type are related to an additional negative mood decrement but only in a low cognitive loading condition (controlled mood improvement).
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