traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … punishment, is strong in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the … usually observed concavity of the relationship: individuals with a higher neuroticism score enjoy extra income more than those …

via psychological characteristics and find evidence of men reporting greater levels of neuroticism and fretfulness … following an increase in income but, again, women do not. In turn, neuroticism and fretfulness are robust predictors of …