Neuroticism (emotion control) is one of five dimensions of personality after Model of the Big Five (McCrae & Costa, 1987) .It describes a person's tendency to show emotions in an extremely controlled manner rather than to let emotions run wild more often.

Neuroticism (emotion control) includes, on the one hand, qualities such as emotionality and anxiety and on the other hand, features such as Gefühlskälte (Costa & McCrae, 1985).

Whereas it was previously assumed that the emotion-guided versus emotion-controlled expression Using emotion control to form a pair of opposites and allows a person to be clearly assigned to one of the two categories, is considered today emotion-driven and emotion-controlled than two poles of a continuum the emotion control dimension. The value of each person can therefore be located at one point on the following scale:

Emotion-driven

People who more emotion-driven Behavior and often let their emotions run wild can be described by the following characteristics:

• passionately
• timid
• sorrowful

Through their natural skepticism Are emotion-controlled people downright Planning geniusesbecause they anticipate potential difficulties in advance. This can be done, for example, in the bookkeeping or similar administrative activities come into their own (Denissen et al., 2017).

Emotion-controlled

For people who more emotion-controlled Behavior and keep an extremely strong grip on their emotions, the following characteristics are characteristic:

• self-assured
• sturdy
• Not to disturb

They are in perfect control of their emotions. This makes them a Rock in the Surf for jobs with high levels of stress (Hough et al., 1990). Strong emotion-controlled behavior is therefore, for example, as physician, At the fire department or as Judge beneficial (Denissen et al., 2017).

Benefits in a professional context

It is not only the person's personality that is decisive, but above all the A fit between the person and the characteristics of the vacancy.

The level of stress in particular is decisive here. People who are highly emotionally driven are often unable to exploit their full potential in very stressful situations (Dobson, 2000). They bloom in safe, stable environments on, while the robustness of emotion-controlled individuals in stressful, varied environments comes into its best.

Therefore, it is important to address the individual characteristics of people in order to to achieve maximum performance.

How do you record neuroticism?

Do you want to record the emotional control of your applicants? Aivy is happy to help you with this!

Our mini game “Self-knowledge” offers users the opportunity to brief self-assessment find out their individual value. This not only covers emotion control, but also the four other areas of the Big Five:

• Openness to new experiences
• conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• tolerability

Sources

• Costa, P.T., & McCrae, R.R. (1985). The NEO personality inventory. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
• Denissen, J.J., Bleidorn, W., Hennecke, M., Luhmann, M., Orth, U., Specht, J., & Zimmermann, J. (2018). Uncovering the power of personality to shape income. Psychological Science, 29 (1), 3-13.
• Dobson, P. (2000). An investigation into the relationship between neuroticism, extraversion and cognitive test performance in selection. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 8 (3), 99-109.
• Hough, L.M., Eaton, N.K., Dunnette, M.D., Kamp, J.D., & McCloy, R.A. (1990). Criterion-related validities of personality constructs and the effect of response distortion on those validities. Journal of Applied Psychology, 75 (5), 581.
• McCrae, R.R., & Costa, P.T. (1987). Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52 (1), 81.