[ { "id": 1, "name": "joy", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Pleasure or happiness about the current situation.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Mere politeness or agreement." }, { "id": 2, "name": "contentment", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Satisfaction with the present state without seeking change.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "High-energy excitement alone." }, { "id": 3, "name": "amusement", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Finding something funny or playfully entertaining.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Mockery without expressed enjoyment." }, { "id": 4, "name": "excitement", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Energized positive anticipation or engagement.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Pleasure with no activation cue." }, { "id": 5, "name": "delight", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Pleasurable surprise at a specific welcome detail or event.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Generic happiness without a specific welcome cause." }, { "id": 6, "name": "elation", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Unusually elevated exuberant happiness.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Ordinary moderate pleasure." }, { "id": 7, "name": "serenity", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Peaceful positive ease with little internal conflict.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A controlled tone that hides tension." }, { "id": 8, "name": "relief", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Reduced distress after a feared burden or outcome eases.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Hope that a burden might ease later." }, { "id": 9, "name": "hope", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "A wanted future outcome still feels possible.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Certainty that it will happen." }, { "id": 10, "name": "optimism", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "A broadly favorable expectation for what comes next.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Desire without favorable expectation." }, { "id": 11, "name": "gratitude", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Thankfulness for a benefit, kindness or help received.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Routine thanks without a discernible appreciative stance." }, { "id": 12, "name": "pride", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Positive evaluation of one's own action, achievement or group contribution.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Praise of someone else's achievement alone." }, { "id": 13, "name": "admiration", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Positive regard for another's qualities or achievement.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Simple agreement with their opinion." }, { "id": 14, "name": "awe", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Feeling impressed or small before something perceived as vast or exceptional.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A routine surprise." }, { "id": 15, "name": "inspiration", "family": "Positive affect", "operational_definition": "Feeling moved toward possibility or action by an example or experience.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Admiration with no motivating effect." }, { "id": 16, "name": "sadness", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Unpleasant low mood about an adverse situation or loss.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A merely negative evaluation with no felt distress." }, { "id": 17, "name": "grief", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Distress linked to losing an important person, relationship or life possibility.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "An ordinary setback without important loss." }, { "id": 18, "name": "sorrow", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Reflective pain or lament about suffering or loss.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Brief annoyance." }, { "id": 19, "name": "loneliness", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Unwanted lack of companionship or felt connection.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Choosing enjoyable solitude." }, { "id": 20, "name": "emptiness", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "A felt inner absence, hollowness or lack of emotional meaning.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Boredom without an inner-absence cue." }, { "id": 21, "name": "disappointment", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "A valued expectation did not turn out as wanted.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A negative event without an expectation contrast." }, { "id": 22, "name": "discouragement", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "A setback reduces willingness or confidence to continue.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Sadness with motivation unchanged." }, { "id": 23, "name": "despair", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Severe distress with a felt lack of a way forward.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A mild discouraging setback." }, { "id": 24, "name": "helplessness", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Feeling unable to change or escape an unwanted current situation.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Not knowing what will happen alone." }, { "id": 25, "name": "hopelessness", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Feeling that a wanted future improvement is not possible.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Temporary uncertainty about one plan." }, { "id": 26, "name": "regret", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Wishing a past choice or event had gone differently.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Current dissatisfaction without a counterfactual past wish." }, { "id": 27, "name": "remorse", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Pain about harm one believes one caused, with a wish to make amends.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Regret over personal inconvenience alone." }, { "id": 28, "name": "guilt", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Feeling responsible for violating a duty or harming someone.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Being accused without accepting responsibility." }, { "id": 29, "name": "shame", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "A negative appraisal of oneself as exposed, unworthy or flawed.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Regret about a discrete mistake without self-directed devaluation." }, { "id": 30, "name": "embarrassment", "family": "Distress and loss", "operational_definition": "Self-conscious discomfort about a socially awkward exposure.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Deep self-devaluation without an awkward exposure cue." }, { "id": 31, "name": "fear", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Distress about a specific perceived threat or danger.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A future uncertainty with no threat cue." }, { "id": 32, "name": "anxiety", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Sustained apprehensive arousal about uncertain adverse possibilities.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Calm uncertainty." }, { "id": 33, "name": "nervousness", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Mild or moderate uneasy arousal in a demanding imminent situation.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A vague belief that a bad outcome is possible without felt arousal." }, { "id": 34, "name": "apprehension", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Uneasy anticipation of a specific upcoming adverse possibility.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Surprise after an event." }, { "id": 35, "name": "worry", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Repeated concern or thought about a possible problem.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A single neutral question about risk." }, { "id": 36, "name": "dread", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Strong aversion while anticipating an expected distressing event.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Ordinary mild nervousness." }, { "id": 37, "name": "panic", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Sudden intense fear with a felt loss of composure or control.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Any strong fear without abrupt overwhelming expression." }, { "id": 38, "name": "insecurity", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Doubt about one's adequacy, worth or relational standing.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Uncertainty about external facts alone." }, { "id": 39, "name": "vulnerability", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Feeling exposed to emotional harm or openly at risk.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Being objectively at risk without a felt-exposure cue." }, { "id": 40, "name": "unease", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Diffuse discomfort that something feels wrong or unsafe.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Neutral unfamiliarity." }, { "id": 41, "name": "suspicion", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "A tentative concern that another's motives or an account are concealed or adverse.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Verified knowledge of wrongdoing alone." }, { "id": 42, "name": "distrust", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "An expressed unwillingness to rely on someone or their claims.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A question asking for clarification." }, { "id": 43, "name": "uncertainty", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "An expressed lack of a settled answer or prediction.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Not wanting to reveal an answer one already knows." }, { "id": 44, "name": "overwhelm", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Demands or feelings feel too much to handle together.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Being busy without reduced handling capacity." }, { "id": 45, "name": "stress", "family": "Threat and uncertainty", "operational_definition": "Felt pressure from demands, stakes or constraints.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A demanding situation reported without personal strain." }, { "id": 46, "name": "anger", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Hostile activated displeasure about an offense or obstruction.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A calm negative judgment alone." }, { "id": 47, "name": "annoyance", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Mild displeasure at a bothersome event or behavior.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "High-intensity rage." }, { "id": 48, "name": "frustration", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Displeasure because progress, a goal or a need is blocked.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "General hostility without an obstruction." }, { "id": 49, "name": "irritation", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Short-tempered sensitivity to a bothersome stimulus.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A considered moral objection alone." }, { "id": 50, "name": "resentment", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Continuing displeasure over perceived unfair treatment or an unmet obligation.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A momentary irritation with no remembered grievance." }, { "id": 51, "name": "bitterness", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Lingering hardened negativity after repeated hurt or disappointment.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Fresh sadness without a hardened stance." }, { "id": 52, "name": "indignation", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Anger at a perceived unfair or improper act.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A personal inconvenience with no fairness judgment." }, { "id": 53, "name": "outrage", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Intense anger at a perceived serious moral violation.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Mild disagreement about appropriateness." }, { "id": 54, "name": "disgust", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Strong aversion or repulsion toward something perceived as offensive or contaminating.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Simple disapproval." }, { "id": 55, "name": "contempt", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Dismissing someone or something as beneath respect.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Anger that still treats the other as worthy of respect." }, { "id": 56, "name": "envy", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Pain or desire about an advantage another has that one lacks.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Fear of losing an existing relationship to a rival." }, { "id": 57, "name": "jealousy", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Threat or distress about losing valued relational attention to a rival.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Wanting someone else's possession alone." }, { "id": 58, "name": "humiliation", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Feeling degraded or publicly diminished by another or a social event.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Private awkwardness without degradation." }, { "id": 59, "name": "betrayal", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Feeling that someone violated an important trust or loyalty.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Unexpected behavior without a trust expectation." }, { "id": 60, "name": "hurt", "family": "Opposition and injury", "operational_definition": "Emotional pain from a perceived interpersonal wound or rejection.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Physical pain alone." }, { "id": 61, "name": "affection", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "A warm positive feeling toward a person or being.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Practical help without a warm feeling cue." }, { "id": 62, "name": "love", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "An explicit or strongly evidenced enduring valued bond and care.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A casual like or generic friendly politeness." }, { "id": 63, "name": "tenderness", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Gentle protective warmth toward another's vulnerability.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "General attraction without gentleness." }, { "id": 64, "name": "compassion", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Concern for another's suffering with an inclination to ease it.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Understanding their perspective with no concern." }, { "id": 65, "name": "empathy", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Expressed felt understanding or resonance with another's experience.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Advice or agreement alone." }, { "id": 66, "name": "caring", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Concern for another's well-being and wish to attend to it.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Social courtesy without concern." }, { "id": 67, "name": "warmth", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Friendly emotional openness and a welcoming positive tone toward someone.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Formal politeness alone." }, { "id": 68, "name": "fondness", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Gentle liking grounded in familiarity or affectionate regard.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Strong dependency or fear of loss alone." }, { "id": 69, "name": "attachment", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Feeling an emotionally important tie and pull to remain linked.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Enjoying one interaction without an important tie." }, { "id": 70, "name": "belonging", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Feeling included and at home in a relationship or group.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Being physically present without inclusion." }, { "id": 71, "name": "acceptance", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Feeling received without needing to conceal or change a salient part of oneself.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Agreeing with a proposal." }, { "id": 72, "name": "trust", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Willingness to rely on another's goodwill, honesty or reliability.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Mere absence of a complaint." }, { "id": 73, "name": "emotional_closeness", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "A felt mutual understanding and accessible emotional bond.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Physical proximity or frequent contact alone." }, { "id": 74, "name": "intimacy", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Valued private personal sharing or vulnerability within a close bond.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Explicit sexual content or physical contact alone." }, { "id": 75, "name": "solidarity", "family": "Bonding and care", "operational_definition": "Felt alliance with another or a group through shared commitment or adversity.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A shared preference with no alliance." }, { "id": 76, "name": "approval", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "A positive evaluative stance toward a specific action or choice.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Pleasure unrelated to evaluation." }, { "id": 77, "name": "disapproval", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "A negative evaluative stance toward a specific action or choice.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Distress without a judgment of the action." }, { "id": 78, "name": "respect", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Recognizing another's dignity, boundaries or competence as worthy of regard.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Fearful compliance alone." }, { "id": 79, "name": "disrespect", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Feeling or expressing that dignity, boundaries or worth were disregarded.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "An ordinary disagreement without disregard." }, { "id": 80, "name": "appreciation", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Noticing and valuing a quality, effort or contribution.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Generic positive mood." }, { "id": 81, "name": "feeling_seen", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Feeling that another accurately noticed an important part of one's experience.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Receiving attention that misreads the experience." }, { "id": 82, "name": "feeling_unheard", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Feeling that one's expressed concern or meaning was not listened to.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A message not yet answered without a listening judgment." }, { "id": 83, "name": "validation", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Feeling that one's experience or reaction is acknowledged as understandable.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Being told one's factual claim is correct alone." }, { "id": 84, "name": "invalidation", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Feeling that one's experience is dismissed, minimized or denied legitimacy.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A factual correction that acknowledges the feeling." }, { "id": 85, "name": "rejection", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Feeling refused as a person, partner or wanted participant.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A logistical no with no felt personal refusal." }, { "id": 86, "name": "exclusion", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Feeling left out of a desired group activity or social space.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Choosing not to participate." }, { "id": 87, "name": "social_comparison", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Evaluating one's own standing by contrasting it with another's.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Mentioning another's achievement without self-comparison." }, { "id": 88, "name": "status_threat", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Concern that one's social standing, competence reputation or rank is at risk.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A loss unrelated to standing." }, { "id": 89, "name": "dignity", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "A felt claim to intrinsic worth and treatment consistent with it.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Pride in a specific achievement alone." }, { "id": 90, "name": "recognition", "family": "Social appraisal", "operational_definition": "Feeling that a contribution, identity or achievement has been acknowledged.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Being visible without acknowledgement of value." }, { "id": 91, "name": "curiosity", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Wanting to find out something not yet known.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A rhetorical question expressing criticism." }, { "id": 92, "name": "interest", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Sustained attention or attraction toward a topic, activity or person.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A neutral mention without engagement." }, { "id": 93, "name": "confusion", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Difficulty making sense of available information or what to do.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Uncertainty with a clear understanding of the options." }, { "id": 94, "name": "surprise", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "An immediate reaction to something not expected.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A predictable welcome event." }, { "id": 95, "name": "astonishment", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Strong surprise at an unusually unexpected event.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Mild ordinary surprise." }, { "id": 96, "name": "bewilderment", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Marked confusion after expectations or sense-making break down.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A simple request for one missing fact." }, { "id": 97, "name": "realization", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "An expressed newly reached insight or recognition.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Restating an already-held belief." }, { "id": 98, "name": "understanding", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "A felt grasp of meaning, reasons or a perspective.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Claiming agreement without grasping the reason." }, { "id": 99, "name": "doubt", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Questioning whether a belief, choice or claim is right.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Not yet receiving information without questioning anything." }, { "id": 100, "name": "skepticism", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "A critical reluctance to accept a claim without more support.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A general distrust of a person without a claim under review." }, { "id": 101, "name": "certainty", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Feeling settled or sure about a proposition or outcome.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Strong desire that it be true." }, { "id": 102, "name": "wonder", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Open reflective fascination at something that invites exploration.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Simple surprise with no reflective fascination." }, { "id": 103, "name": "cognitive_conflict", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Feeling torn between incompatible beliefs or interpretations.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Competing practical goals without conflicting beliefs." }, { "id": 104, "name": "disbelief", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "Difficulty accepting that a reported or observed event is true.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A question asked only to obtain a missing detail." }, { "id": 105, "name": "expectation_violation", "family": "Knowledge and surprise", "operational_definition": "An expressed mismatch between a prior expectation and what occurred.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Surprise without an identifiable prior expectation." }, { "id": 106, "name": "desire", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "An expressed wanting of an outcome, object or experience.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A plan with no personal wanting cue." }, { "id": 107, "name": "longing", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "A sustained felt lack and wish for an absent valued thing or person.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A brief preference for an available option." }, { "id": 108, "name": "yearning", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Intense emotionally charged longing for connection or fulfillment.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Mild wanting." }, { "id": 109, "name": "determination", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Strong willingness to persist despite difficulty.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Excitement without a persistence cue." }, { "id": 110, "name": "resolve", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "A settled commitment to a course after deliberation or doubt.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "An undecided intention." }, { "id": 111, "name": "motivation", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Felt readiness or drive to pursue an activity or goal.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A goal stated without willingness to act." }, { "id": 112, "name": "ambition", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Desire to achieve a substantial future accomplishment or standing.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Completing a routine required step." }, { "id": 113, "name": "confidence", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Positive assurance about oneself or a coming action.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Certainty about an external fact alone." }, { "id": 114, "name": "self_efficacy", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Belief in one's ability to perform a particular task or handle a challenge.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Generic self-worth." }, { "id": 115, "name": "agency", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Feeling able to initiate choices and influence one's course.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "An action imposed entirely by others." }, { "id": 116, "name": "powerlessness", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Feeling deprived of effective influence over a valued situation or decision.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A freely chosen delegation." }, { "id": 117, "name": "perceived_control", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Feeling that outcomes or important aspects are within one's influence.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A desire to control without feeling able to." }, { "id": 118, "name": "autonomy", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Feeling or seeking freedom to choose according to one's own preferences.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Control over others." }, { "id": 119, "name": "defiance", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Expressed resistance to an imposed demand, authority or constraint.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A quiet independent choice without opposition." }, { "id": 120, "name": "resignation", "family": "Agency and motivation", "operational_definition": "Giving up resistance and accepting an unwanted outcome as inevitable.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Willing positive acceptance." }, { "id": 121, "name": "calmness", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Low agitation and steady emotional arousal in the current situation.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Polite wording while explicitly agitated." }, { "id": 122, "name": "agitation", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Restless or unsettled activated distress.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Purposeful energetic excitement." }, { "id": 123, "name": "tension", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "A felt tautness, strain or difficulty relaxing.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A difficult situation with no felt strain cue." }, { "id": 124, "name": "restlessness", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Difficulty staying settled, waiting or remaining still.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Purposeful movement without unsettled feeling." }, { "id": 125, "name": "emotional_fatigue", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Feeling depleted by sustained emotional demands.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Physical tiredness alone." }, { "id": 126, "name": "composure", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Maintaining or regaining self-command despite emotional pressure.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A lack of pressure with ordinary calmness." }, { "id": 127, "name": "patience", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Willingness to tolerate delay, difficulty or another's pace.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "No delay or difficulty being described." }, { "id": 128, "name": "impatience", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Difficulty tolerating delay or wanting progress faster.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Urgency imposed by a deadline without personal intolerance." }, { "id": 129, "name": "defensiveness", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "A protective response against perceived criticism or exposure.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A clear correction offered without self-protection." }, { "id": 130, "name": "openness", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Willingness to consider a view, experience or personal exchange.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Uncritical agreement alone." }, { "id": 131, "name": "guardedness", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Cautious withholding of emotion or information to protect oneself.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Simply having nothing relevant to share." }, { "id": 132, "name": "emotional_numbness", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "An expressed reduced ability to feel or emotional disconnection.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Calmness or absence of a label." }, { "id": 133, "name": "emotional_recovery", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "A felt movement back toward steadiness after emotional difficulty.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A hopeful plan to recover later." }, { "id": 134, "name": "willingness_to_engage", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "Readiness to participate in a current conversation or emotional exchange.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Being present without willingness." }, { "id": 135, "name": "withdrawal", "family": "Regulation and readiness", "operational_definition": "A current pull to reduce interaction or disengage from emotional contact.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A brief break for unrelated logistics." }, { "id": 136, "name": "reassurance_seeking", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Seeking confirmation that a feared relational or personal concern is not true.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A factual question unrelated to reassurance." }, { "id": 137, "name": "support_seeking", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Asking for practical or emotional help with a difficulty.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Mentioning difficulty without seeking help." }, { "id": 138, "name": "comfort_seeking", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Seeking soothing, care or solace for emotional pain.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Seeking only factual information." }, { "id": 139, "name": "connection_seeking", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Seeking renewed or increased meaningful contact or companionship.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Coordinating a purely logistical exchange." }, { "id": 140, "name": "distance_seeking", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Seeking space or less closeness to protect a need or regulate contact.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Being geographically distant involuntarily." }, { "id": 141, "name": "boundary_assertion", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Expressing a limit on access, behavior or responsibility one will accept.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A preference with no limit communicated." }, { "id": 142, "name": "boundary_discomfort", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Unease about a personal limit being crossed or hard to state.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "General relational worry without a limit cue." }, { "id": 143, "name": "fear_of_abandonment", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Fear that an important other will leave or cease caring.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Missing someone with no feared departure." }, { "id": 144, "name": "dependency_concern", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Concern about relying too heavily on another or being relied on excessively.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Ordinary valued mutual support." }, { "id": 145, "name": "reciprocity_expectation", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Wanting mutual effort, attention or care in a relationship.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "A request for help without a mutuality expectation." }, { "id": 146, "name": "forgiveness", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "A willingness to release a grievance toward someone who caused hurt.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Pretending harm did not occur or accepting future harm." }, { "id": 147, "name": "reconciliation_desire", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Wanting to restore a relationship after conflict or separation.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Missing a person without wanting renewed relationship." }, { "id": 148, "name": "conflict_repair", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Current effort or readiness to address damage from a disagreement.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Ending a conversation without addressing the damage." }, { "id": 149, "name": "relational_ambivalence", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Simultaneous incompatible pulls toward and away from a relationship.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Simple uncertainty about a logistical plan." }, { "id": 150, "name": "self_disclosure_readiness", "family": "Relational needs and repair", "operational_definition": "Willingness to reveal personally meaningful feelings or information.", "insufficient_on_its_own": "Sharing impersonal facts alone." } ]