Lęk osobowościowy a bogactwo narracji o uczuciach - hipoteza o wpływie lęku na reprezentacje afektywne

The experience of the anxiety could have a variable influence to the personal life. It is interesting how this experience determine the mental affective representations. This article aims to analyze the relation between level of anxiety as personality trait and the emotional narrations. The main thesis is that the narrative stories are the means to make understand verbal affective representations. The stories about the love hate were analyzed taken from 100 adult men. The form of the narrations was evaluated that means the richness of constructions. Further, the comparisons between the groups and correlations analyses were conducted. The results shows that the anxiety as personality trait has an influence to the forms of narrations about love and hate (the significant correlations has been found). Generally, a high level of anxiety reduces the verbal construction of emotional stories. The results let to suppose that the high level of anxiety (experience of anxiety) limits the development of mental representations of love and hate.