The happy personality: a meta-analysis of 137 personality traits and subjective well-being.
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Summary
This meta-analysis used 9 literature search strategies to examine 137 distinct personality constructs as correlates of subjective well-being (SWB), finding personality was found to be equally predictive of life satisfaction, happiness, and positive affect, but significantly less predictive of negative affect.
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- review
- Published
- 1998-09-01
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- 2,931
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Keywords
Psychology, Agreeableness, Personality, Extraversion and introversion, Subjective well-being
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