Comparison of Emotional Styles and Executive Functions of Introverted and Extroverted people

Aim:The aim of this study was to compare executive functions and affective styles (adjusting, tolerating, concealing) in introverted and extroverted individuals.
The method of this research was to ex-post-facto and the population of this study concluded that 370 people who worked in Jam-e Jam Institute in 2016. In this research, the first, all of employees completed the Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQR)- Revised, Then were purposefully divided into two groups – 40 introverted persons and 35 extroverted persons, based on the the final scores of distibution. Participants were matched according to age, gender, education and marital status in two groups. For data collection was used the affective styles questionnaire and Stroop computer test (Color and Word). the data was analyzed by Multivariate analysis of variance and the Kruskal Wallis Test.
The results showed that the extroverted and introverted individuals have a significant difference between two components of emotional styles, adjusting” and “tolerating. So that, the extroverted individuals more adjustable, and the introverted individuals were more tolerance, but there was no significant difference between the two groups in the emotional concealment. Also, the findings showed that there was no significant difference in the executive functions between introverted and extroverted individuals.
It can be concluded that personality traits play an important role in emotional style, but can not explain executive functions.