Affect intensity was significantly related to both the number of self-relevant roles endorsed by an individual and the overlap of these roles for 62 undergraduates (43 women) of mean age 21.5 yr. Affect intensity was not related to specific judgments concerning the importance, stressfulness, and perceived satisfaction of these roles but did yield a significant relationship with a more general measure of dysfunctional self-evaluative standards. These findings are related to previous 1990 research by Calloni and Ross on trait self-schemata and affect intensity.
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