Emotional stability
Emotional stability is the ability to remain relatively calm and even-keeled in the face of stress, frustration, or unexpected change. It’s one of the five core personality traits psychologists use to describe human personality, sitting at the opposite end of the spectrum from neuroticism. People with high emotional stability recover from setbacks more quickly, experience fewer intense mood swings, and generally maintain a steadier internal baseline throughout the day.
Emotional stability, in formal psychological terms, is a personality dimension representing how consistently and proportionately a person responds to emotional stimuli. It sits at one end of a spectrum whose opposite pole is neuroticism, a trait characterized by heightened reactivity, frequent negative affect, and slow recovery from distress.
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