personality. Undergraduates (N = 570) completed online measures of marijuana use, negative consequences (using a modified form of … the Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index), well-being (happiness, life satisfaction, depression, and positive and negative affect …), and personality (using the NEO-PI-R). Rates of marijuana use were higher than those reported in many previous studies …

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 …

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the … delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well …-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the … delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well …-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …

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

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 …