Personality and happiness: Is mental health a mediator?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-256

  Lu, L ^a   Shih, J B ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031065517     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(96)00187-0     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Abbey, A. & Andrews, F. M. (1985). Modeling the psychological determinants of life quality. Social Indicators Research, 16, 1-16.
2. Andrews, F. M. & Withey, S. B. (1976). Social Indicators of well-being. New York: Plenum.
3. Argyle, M. (1987). The psychology of happiness. London: Methuen.
4. Argyle, M.(1988). Bodily communication. London: Methuen.
5. Argyle, M. & Lu, L. (1990a). The happiness of extraverts. Personality and Individual Differences, 11, 1011-1017.
6. Argyle, M. & Lu, L. (1990b). Happiness and social skills. Personality and Individual Differences, 11, 1255-1261.
7. Argyle, M., Martin, M. & Crossland, J. (1989). Happiness as a function of personality and social encounters. In Forgas, J. P. & Innes J. M. (Ed), Recent advances in social psychology: An international perspective. North Holland: Elsevier.
8. Argyle, M., Martin, M. & Lu, L. (1995). Testing for stress and happiness: The role of social and cognitive factors. In Spielberger, C. D. & Sarason, I. G. (Eds), Stress and emotion (Vol. 15, pp. 173-187). Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis.
9. Bauer, W. (1976). China and the search for happiness: Recurring themes in four thousand years of Chinese cultural history. New York: The Seabury Press.
10. Bentler, P. M. (1990). Comparative indexes in structural models. Psychological Bulletin, 107, 238-246.
11. Brickman, P., Coates, D. & Janoff-Bulman, R. (1978). Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 917-927.
12. Campbell, A. (1976). Subjective measures of well-being. American Psychologist, 31, 117-124.
13. Costa, P. T. & McCrae, R. R. (1980). Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: Happy and unhappy people. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 38, 668-678.
14. Costa, P. T. & McCrae, R. R. (1984). Personality as a lifelong determinant of well-being. In Matatesta, C. & Izard, C. (Eds), Affective processes in adult development and aging (pp. 141-156). Beverly Hills: Sage.
15. Derogatis, L. R., Rickels, K. & Rock, A. F. (1976). The SCL-90 and the MMPI: A step in the validation of a new self-report scale. British Journal of Psychiatry, 128, 280-289.
16. Diener, E. (1984). Subjective well-being. Psychological Bulletin, 95, 542-575.
17. Diener, E., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J. & Griffin, S. (1985). The Satisfaction with Life Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49, 71-75.
18. Diener, E., Suh, M., Smith, H. & Shao, L. (1994). National and cultural differences in reported subjective well-being: Why do they occur? Social Indicators Research, 31, 103-157.
19. Emmons, R. A. & Diener, E. (1985). Personality correlates of subjective well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 11, 89-97.
20. Eysenck, H. J. & Eysenck, S. B. G. (1975). Manual for the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
21. Furnham, A. & Brewing, G. R. (1990). Personality and happiness. Personality and Individual Differences, 11, 1093-1099.
22. Gray, J. A. (1972). The psychophysiological nature of introversion-extraversion: A modification of Eysenck's theory. In Neblitsyn, V. D. & Gray, J. A. (Eds), Biological basis of individual behavior. New York: Academic Press.
23. Headey, B. & Wearing, A. (1989). Personality, life events, and subjective well-being: Toward a dynamic equilibrium Model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 731-739.
24. Hoorens, V. (1994). Is the happiness-extraversion relation due to response sets? Unpublished manuscript. University of Groningen.
25. Hotard, S. H., McFatter, R. M., McWhirtter, R. W. & Stegall, M. E. (1989). Interactive effects of extraversion, neuroticism, and social relationships on subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 321-331.
26. Kline, P. (1993). The handbook of psychological testing. London: Routledge.
27. Lu, L. (1994). University transition: Major and minor life stressors, personality characteristics and mental health. Psychology and Medicine, 24, 81-87.
28. Lu. L. (1995). The relationship between subjective well-being and psychosocial variables in Taiwan. Journal of Social Psychology, 135, 351-357.
29. Lu, L. & Argyle, M. (1991). Happiness and cooperation. Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 1019-1030.
30. Lu, L. & Shih, J. B. (In press). Sources of happiness: A qualitative approach. Journal of Social Psychology.
31. Parot, W., Diener E. & Fujita, Y. F. (1990). Extraversion and happiness. Personality and Individual Differences, 11, 1299-1301.
32. Quweneel, P. & Veenhove, R. (1991). Cross-national differences in happiness: Cultural bias or society quality. In Bleichrodt, N. & Drenth, P. J. P. (Eds), Contemporary issues in cross-culture psychology (pp. 168-184). Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger.
33. Raykov, T., Tomer, A. & Nesselroade, J. R. (1991). Reporting structural equation modeling results in psychology and aging: Some proposed guidelines. Psychology and Aging, 6, 499-503.
34. Reich, J. W. & Zautra, A. (1983). Demands and desires in daily life: some influences on well-being. American Journal of Community Psychology, 11, 41-58.
35. Rodgers, W. L. & Bachman, J. G. (1988). The subjective well-being of young adults: Trends and relationships. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
36. Smith, T. W., Pope, M. K., Rhodewalt, F. & Poulton, J. I. (1989). Optimism, neuroticism, coping and symptom reports: An alternative interpretation of the Life-Orientation Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 640-648.
37. Sommers, S. (1984). Reported emotions and conventions of emotionality among college students. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 207-215.
38. Strack, F., Argyle, M. & Schwarz, N. (Eds) (1991). Subjective well-being: an interdisciplinary perspective. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
39. Thompson, M. G. & Heller, K. (1990). Facets of support related to well-being: Qualitative social isolation and perceived family support in a sample of elderly women. Psychology and Aging, 5, 535-544.
40. Veenhoven, R. (1984). Conditions of happiness. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company.
41. Veenhoven, R. (1994). Is happiness a trait? Tests of the theory that a better society does not make people any happier. Social Indicators Research, 32, 101-160.
42. Wood, W. Rhodes, N. & Whelan, M. (1989). Sex differences in positive well-being: A consideration of emotional style and marital status. Psychological Bulletin, 106, 249-264.