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EMOTIONAL STABILITY
Emotional stability is the ability to maintain emotional balance in stressful circumstances.
Mendel, depending on your genetics and other factors, you are more likely than average to be emotionally stable.
Genetic variants analyzed
115
Genetic variants with positive effect
50
Genetic variants with negative effect
50
Genetic variants without effect
15
Genes analyzed
XKR6 L3MBTL2 CHADL SLC6A4 PTPRF ANO4 SNAP25 CHMP4B LINC00529-201 AL353595.1 SBF2 CELF4 PAFAH1B1 LINC01811 AL391117.1 LINGO1 RABGAP1L CHMP3 RASSF1 STAB1 HIST1H2BC ASCC3 TMEM106B LMTK2 FAM120A LRP4 DRD2 DCAF5 CSNK1G1 ZNF646 ZCCHC14 MAPT-AS1 AATK BAIAP2 TCF4 ZC3H7B CACNA1E LINC00461 ERI1 XKR6 LINGO2
Most of the traits that define our psychology are influenced by many different factors, including genetics, lifestyle and environment.
Contribution of genetics
Contribution of other factors
What is Emotional Stability?
Emotional stability is the trait that determines the way you react to stimuli, especially those that generate anxiety, anger or sadness.
you react to stimuli, especially those that generate anxiety, anger or sadness. In fact, one of the main traits that characterize Emotional Stability is sensitivity, that is, the ease with which you respond or not to emotions such as discomfort or panic. On the other hand, this trait also encompasses the time it takes you to recover emotionally from the aforementioned anxiety.
Thus, your emotional stability depends on the predisposition of your DNA and other factors such as environment and lived experiences. For this reason, although genetically you have a greater or lesser tendency to be emotionally stable, it is not uncommon for this to vary depending on the experiences you have had and the stress you are going through at any given time.
What does Emotional Stability say about me?
Resistant
Insurance
Genetically you define yourself as a confident person and capable of managing your emotions in a positive way. This helps you to remain calm in difficult situations, both professionally and personally, and not get carried away by negative feelings. Thus, people with a high score in emotional stability tend to be calmer and less likely to feel tense or nervous.
External factors
Levels of emotional stability – neuroticism are relatively stable from adolescence/early adulthood onwards and, in general, this trait is influenced by environmental factors that occur in childhood. However, certain factors in your life today may tip the balance toward one pole or the other.
Age
In general terms, emotional stability increases with age.
Critical events
Exposure to very stressful or negative events, such as having experienced a traffic accident, natural disaster or having suffered some type of abuse in childhood, decreases the predisposition to emotional stability.
Family environment
Growing up in an environment in which safe and healthy relationships with parents, family members and peers predominate enhances the predisposition to emotional stability.
Health
Perceived health is a factor that can influence levels of emotional stability; in particular, suffering from some type of chronic pain is associated with scores on this trait closer to the neuroticism pole.
Did you know?
In 2015 Perkins proposed the “daydreaming” hypothesis. According to this model, people with lower levels of emotional stability and higher levels of neuroticism are more creative and have a more vivid imagination. Historical figures such as Van Gogh, Darwin or Virginia Wolf had innately high tendencies towards neuroticism.
Chu, X. (2020). Un análisis de asociación multifenotípica de todo el genoma identificó genes candidatos comunes para el bienestar subjetivo, los síntomas depresivos y el neuroticismo. Revista de investigación psiquiátrica, 124, 22-28.
Nagel, M. (2018). El meta-análisis de los estudios de asociación de todo el genoma para el neuroticismo en 449.484 individuos identifica nuevos loci genéticos
loci y vías genéticas nuevas. Nature Genetics, 50(7), 920-927.
Luciano, M. (2017). El análisis de asociación en más de 329.000 individuos identifica 116 variantes independientes que influyen en el neuroticismo.
Nature Genetics, 50(1), 6-11.
Vassend, O., & Skrondal, A. (2011). El inventario de personalidad NEO revisado (NEO-PI-R): Explorando la estructura de medición y
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