The results confirm the predictive power of the dispositionaltraits in the underwater environment and support the incrementalvalidity of individual differences in personality, verifying that emo-tional adjustment and adaptability to the anxiety are protectorsagainst underwater stressors and predictors of effective responsesto changing or unforeseen situations of diving.

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Individual differences and social visibility in climate changemitigationC. Brick, D.K. ShermanUniversity of California, United States

We investigated individual differences in environmental socialidentification and climate change belief in predicting emissions-reducing behavior (‘‘mitigation’’). Specifically, we hypothesizedindividual differences would moderate the importance of thesocial visibility of climate change behaviors to help resolve whyhigh rates of climate change belief are not accompanied by com-mensurate mitigation. Climate change believers (but not skeptics)are hypothesized to experience cognitive dissonance between theirbeliefs and lack of action. We argued the social visibility of cli-mate change actions will drive mitigating behavior: climatechange belief will predict public behaviors such as taking recycledbags to the grocery (trifling carbon footprint), but will not affectcarbon-intense but less visible activities such as meat consump-tion or long-distance air travel. Moral licensing (Monin & Miller,2001) also suggests that climate change belief can function as aideological badge that can ironically prevent future action, furtherexplaining the mitigation gap. .

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Individual differences in affect regulation strategiesZ. Prizmic-Larsen, R. Larsen, A. AugustineWashington University in St. Louis, United States

The structure of affect regulation using the Measure of Affect Reg-ulation Styles (MARS) was examined in samples of College Students(N = 565, M = 20 years) and older adults (N = 135, M = 67 years).Based on factor analysis and on Parkinson and Totterdell’s theoreticalframework six affect regulation scales were constructed (reliabilityrange 0.75–0.51; test–retest after 1 year on adult sample (N = 36)range 0.77–0.42). Age and gender analysis showed that cognitive dis-traction was used more by older, while affect directed, disengage-ment, and avoidance strategies were used by the younger group.Females used more affect-directed strategies, while males used dis-engagement strategies. Associations between personality and regula-tion strategies were examined separately in age groups. Youngerextraverts use more behavioral distraction and less avoidance strate-gies, while older consciousness people use more situation-focus andless disengagement strategies. Analyses of predictive validity in well-being revealed that life satisfaction was best predicted positively bycognitive distraction and negatively by avoidance strategies.

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Individual differences in divingJ. Colodro-Plaza, E.J. Garcés de los Fayos-Ruiz, J.J. López-García,L. Colodro-CondeDelegation of Defense in the Region of Murcia, Spain

Diving is an activity that requires the divers to undergo adaptiveproceses to survive and to achieve an efficient performance in theunderwater environment.

With the aim of verifying the role of individual differences in theadaptation to an extreme environment, psychological data from asample (N = 649) of military personnel participating in divingcourses were analyzed, checking the differences in their capacityto adapt to the underwater demands and between divers with differ-ent levels of performance.

The results indicate the existence of psychological variables thatdifferentiate those who pass or fail the diving training (d = .34) andbetween groups of divers who obtain different levels of performance(d = .56) in underwater tasks.

These data support the hypothesis that dispositional traits can bepredictors of underwater behavior and performance, and that theyare useful for the identification of suitable personnel for the practiceof professional diving.

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Individual differences in error monitoring in high math-anxiousindividualsM. Suárez-Pellicioni, M.I. Núñez-Peña, A. ColoméUniversity of Barcelona, Spain

This study used event-related brain potentials to investigatewhether math anxiety is related to abnormal error monitoring pro-cessing. To this end, fourteen high math-anxious (HMA) and fourteenlow math-anxious (LMA) individuals were presented with a numeri-cal and a classical Stroop task. Groups did not differ in trait anxiety.We found enhanced error-related negativity (ERN) in the HMA groupwhen they committed an error in the numerical Stroop task, but notin the classical Stroop task. Groups did not differ in the correct-related negativity component (CRN), the error positivity component(Pe) or behavioral measures. The amplitude of the ERN was nega-tively related to participants’ math anxiety scores, showing a morenegative amplitude as the score increased. The results were inter-preted according to the motivational significance theory of the ERN.

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Individual differences in evaluation of married life among middle-aged couplesH. UtsunomiyaRitsumeikan University, Japan

The present study examined the evaluation of past married life bymiddle-aged people and its relationship with marital commitmentand subjective well-being. A questionnaire survey using the samequestionnaire with husbands and wives was conducted with mid-dle-aged married couples (N = 204, 102 pairs, average age = 49.5,SD = 5.04). The questionnaire inquired about their commitment tomarried life in personal, functional, and involuntary dimensions, theirsubjective well-being, positive and negative aspects of their marriedlife in the past. Cluster analysis was conducted based on the evaluationof married life and the following three clusters were extracted: onlystrong positive memories (CL1), equally positive and negative memo-ries (CL2), dominant positive memories and some negative memories(CL3). The results indicated that more husbands were in CL1 and morewives were in CL2. CL1 had the highest score for personal commitmentand subjective well-being, whereas CL2 had higher scores than othertwo clusters for involuntary commitment.

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