I was hoping someone on here might be so kind as to advise on the feasibility and practicality of manipulating 'state' levels of neuroticism.
I would quite like to do this within a broader study design that looks at how Neurotics can temper their disposition towards a lack of well-being, but can't think of a way I can ethically manipulate Neuroticism, and can't find any examples within the literature.
This article may not answer your question directly, but it may be useful. An excerpt from the abstract: "From a service-delivery point of view, we explore the possibility that neuroticism may be more malleable than previously thought and may possibly be amenable to direct intervention. The public-health implications of directly treating and even preventing the development of neuroticism would be substantial."
http://cpx.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/10/14/2167702613505532.abstract
I mentioned the above article briefly in the context of another question about neuroplasticity and personality development on Cognitive Sciences (a site within the Stack Exchange network). My answer there contains some links to articles that discuss biofeedback and neural decoding as depression and anxiety treatments. This may not be equivalent to neuroticism per se, but it sounds promising to me.
http://cogsci.stackexchange.com/a/5774/4086
Hi Nick
Apologies for the belated reply; this is great. I think this may also fit with a stress causation interactionist model which suggests that life events can modify personality traits.
Essentially I am looking at moderators of the relationship between Neuroticism and burnout, but research such as that cited here has encouraged me to implement a two wave study in order to look at changes in both neuroticism and burnout over time, and how these relate to my moderators.
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