Personality is a powerful predictor of central life outcomes, including subjective well-being. Yet, we still know … little about how personality manifests in the very last years of life when well-being typically falls rapidly. Here, we … investigate whether the Big Five personality traits buffer (or magnify) terminal decline in well-being beyond and in interaction …

activities which is not explicit in Sen's original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A … some cases the association with parenting inputs is stronger. Thirdly, we report happiness regressions for the children … wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using …

economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …

It is well known, that the presences of children lower parental happiness. That is based on psychological and … economical reasons. The effect holds on for micro data of the GSOEP. The number of children affects an inverse u-shaped curve on … happiness. Even an enlargement of the dataset with macroeconomic variables offers the same results. The effect disappears only …

It is well known, that the presences of children lower parental happiness. That is based on psychological and … economical reasons. The effect holds on for micro data of the GSOEP. The number of children affects an inverse u-shaped curve on … happiness. Even an enlargement of the dataset with macroeconomic variables offers the same results. The effect disappears only …

, dispositional, and hybrid approaches, depending on whether working conditions, personality traits or their interaction are … studies both in the consideration of personality variables as well as the influence of factors to explain job satisfaction, do … not offer a theoretical framework. This paper investigates the influence of personality characteristics and working …

Evidence of assortative mating according to personality was reported in a previous SOEP-based study (Rammstedt & Schupp … personality assessed at the beginning and end of this time, which allowed us to investigate the relationship between personality … congruence and marriage duration longitudinally. Using this data, we investigated (a) whether personality congruence is …