surgency
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Noun[edit]
surgency (uncountable)
- (psychology) A trait aspect of emotional reactivity in which a person tends towards high levels of positive affect.
- 2001, Robert N. Lussier, Christopher F. Achua, Management Effectiveness: Developing Leadership Skills, South-Western Pub, →ISBN:
- The Big Five Model of Personality categorizes traits into the dimensions of surgency, agreeableness, adjustment, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.
- 2019, Chau-kiu Cheung, Xiaodong Yue, Creativity in Chinese Contexts: Sociocultural and Dispositional Analyses, Routledge, →ISBN, page 113:
- Contextual or collective surgency is likely to enhance personal well-being, curiosity, and value for friendship, as well as creativity. In the first place, personal surgency has fostered creativity (Feist 2010; M. Wang et al. 2017).
