Personality and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from South Korea
Although the statistically significant relationship between personality traits and subjective well-being (i.e., self-reported happiness and life satisfaction) is well-known in the field of positive psychology, some scholars still cast doubt on the external validity of this finding and the strength of personality dimensions vis-à-vis other individual-level determinants of subjective well-being such as income, employment status, marital status, self-reported health, and so on. Using a nationally representative, face-to-face survey fielded in South Korea in 2009, we find that personality traits (measured by the Five-factor Model)—particularly, Emotional Stability and Extraversion—are positively associated with happiness and life satisfaction, after controlling for other covariates. The effects of personality traits are often on par with, and sometimes even greater than, those of other well-known determinants. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013
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2013
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Authors: | Ha, Shang ; Kim, Seokho |
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Social Indicators Research. - Springer. - Vol. 111.2013, 1, p. 341-359
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Springer |
Subject: | Personality | The “Big Five” | Subjective well-being | Happiness | Life satisfaction | South Korea |
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