Do Orientations to Happiness Mediate the Associations Between Personality Traits and Subjective Well-Being?

被引：38

作者：

Pollock, Noah C. ^{[1
]}

Noser, Amy E. ^{[1
]}

Holden, Christopher J. ^{[1
]}

Zeigler-Hill, Virgil ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Oakland Univ, Dept Psychol, 212A Pryale Hall, Rochester, MI 48309 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES | 2016年 / 17卷 / 02期

关键词：

Subjective well-being; Positive psychology; Happiness; Personality; Mediation; CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSES; HEXACO MODEL; 5-FACTOR MODEL; HAPPY; LIFE; VALIDATION; PRODUCT; BIAS;

D O I：

10.1007/s10902-015-9617-9

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Personality traits have frequently been observed to be associated with subjective well-being. It has been suggested that personality traits may lead individuals to experience life in certain ways which, in turn, influences their subjective well-being. However, the exact mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unknown. The present study hypothesized that the ways in which individuals endorse strategies for achieving happiness (i.e., orientations to happiness: through a life of pleasure, through a life of engagement, or through a life of meaning) mediates the associations that personality traits have with subjective well-being (i.e., satisfaction with life, positive affect, and negative affect). Our results indicated that an orientation to meaning in life partially mediated the relationship between extraversion and life satisfaction. In addition, all three orientations to happiness (i.e., pleasure, engagement, and meaning) partially mediated the relationship between extraversion and positive affect. Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for understanding the connection between personality traits and subjective well-being.

引用

页码：713 / 729

页数：17

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