Dispositional affect, similar to mood, is a personality trait or overall tendency to respond to situations in stable, predictable ways.
Research shows that there is a correlation between dispositional affect (both positive and negative) and important aspects in psychology and social science, such as personality, culture, decision making, negotiation, psychological resilience, perception of career barriers, and coping with stressful life events.
In line with the classification mentioned above, there is a well-known and common model that is being used in organizational psychology research to analyze and classify dispositional affect, which was developed by Watson and Tellegen.
[5] However, other researchers maintain that these concepts are related but should remain distinctly separate as they have traditionally had weak to moderate correlations, around .4.
[6] Affect and the Big Five traits can be used in a combined method to evaluate correlation between personality and financial satisfaction.
An individual has to indicate the most appropriate answer to each item (feeling or emotion) on a scale ranging from 1-5 (1- Very slightly or not at all, 5- Extremely).
By responding to the questions about feelings "in general" we can learn about positive and negative affectivity as a personality trait.