Personality and responses to appetitive and aversive stimuli: the joint influence of behavioural approach and behavioural inhibition systems Kambouropoulos, Nicolas and Staiger, Petra K. 2004, Personality and responses to appetitive and aversive stimuli: the joint influence of behavioural approach and behavioural inhibition systems, Personality and individual differences, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1153-1165, doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2003.11.019. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Personality and responses to appetitive and aversive stimuli: the joint influence of behavioural approach and behavioural inhibition systems Author(s) Kambouropoulos, Nicolas orcid.org/0000-0001-9861-3347 Staiger, Petra K. orcid.org/0000-0002-6968-5015 Journal name Personality and individual differences Volume number 37 Issue number 6 Start page 1153 End page 1165 Publisher Pergamon Place of publication Oxford, England Publication date 2004 ISSN 0191-8869 1873-3549 Keyword(s) behavioural approach behavioural inhibition appetitive motivation aversive motivation impulsivity anxiety reinforcement sensitivity theory Summary Gray’s reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) posits two separable neurological systems involved in the regulation of personality and behaviour. The behavioural approach and inhibition systems facilitate the expression of appetitive (impulsive-sensation seeking traits) and aversive motivation (anxiety traits), respectively. Inconsistent findings regarding associations between measures of personality and behavioural responses to appetitive and aversive stimuli has led to a modification of RST including the notion that, rather than separable as first hypothesised, the two systems jointly influence behaviour. The current study was designed to investigate this proposal with an additional focus on the role of reinforcement expectancies. Seventy-eight participants completed two questionnaire measures of BIS/BAS activity (EPQ-R, SPSRQ) and two behavioural measures (Q-TASK, Card Arranging Reward Responsivity Objective Task). Findings were in general consistent with the original separable systems approach, however they also showed that aversive responses were highest in high BAS/high BIS individuals, thus suggesting an interactive account of BIS/BAS processes. Further, stronger positive correlations between self-report BAS traits and behavioural reward responsiveness were found for participants who perceived the task as more rewarding than initially expected. Discussion focuses on the role of reward expectancies and on the issue regarding separable vs. joint BIS/BAS systems. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.paid.2003.11.019 Field of Research 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2003, Elsevier Ltd Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30002698 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Psychology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 14 Jan 2009, 09:54:48 EST Tue, 20 Jul 2010, 13:58:59 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 22:39:44 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 14:19:51 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 32 times in TR Web of Science Cited 41 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1218 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:32:00 EST