Surgency
Surgency is a trait aspect of emotional reactivity in which a person tends towards high levels of positive affect.[1] The APA Dictionary of Psychology defines it as "a personality trait marked by cheerfulness, responsiveness, spontaneity, and sociability but at a level below that of extraversion or mania."[2]
In children, surgency is an emotional dimension that is characterized by high levels of activity and positive emotion,
Thurstone and Thurstone identified surgency by the word "fluency".[6] This concept of fluency is very broad, and includes facility both in speech and in writing. Cattell found that of all of the objective tests developed for assessing temperament, the fluency tests were the most valid for testing surgency. Studman had also come to similar conclusions.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ "Surgency". APA Dictionary of Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. n.d. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
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- ^ Thurstone, L.L. & Thurstone, T.G. (1941). Factorial Studies of Intelligence. Psychometric Monographs, no. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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