Personality and Happiness: Predicting the Experience of Subjective well-being

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 699-717

  Pavot, William ^a   Diener, Ed ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment of satisfaction with specific domains housing, employment, income, relationships and marriage, individual's experience of SWB; Experience sampling method (ESM) reports of ongoing affective experiences, random moments in their everyday lives; Heredity, temperament and SWB influence of heritability on personality and SWB, examined in behavior genetic studies; Overall variance in levels of SWB between individuals, accounted for by temperament level personality characteristics; Relation between personality and SWB well established and robust; Relationships and subjective well being personality and happiness, predicting experience of subjective well being; Subjective nature of construct dominant methodology of SWB researchers, involving self reported assessments; Subjective well being (SWB) and construct of SWB, interest in positive psychology and related constructs, growing; SWB and temperament level personality traits, examined for their association with SWB; Theoretical models focused on SWB over time, grouped into two categories, bottom up theories and top down theories

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EID: 84985880287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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