Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesA trait aspect of emotional reactivity in which a person tends towards high levels of positive affect.
The Big Five Model of Personality categorizes traits into the dimensions of surgency, agreeableness, adjustment, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.
2001, Robert N. Lussier, Christopher F. Achua, Management Effectiveness: Developing Leadership Skills, South-Western Pub, →ISBN1 more example
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).
2019, Chau-kiu Cheung, Xiaodong Yue, Creativity in Chinese Contexts: Sociocultural and Dispositional Analyses, Routledge, →ISBN, page 113
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