Is Happiness Good for Your Personality? Concurrent and Prospective Relations of the Big Five With Subjective Well-Being

Journal of Personality

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 45-55

  Soto, Christopher J ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; AUSTRALIA; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AUSTRALIA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920940271     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12081     Document Type: Article

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