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When it comes to happiness, the Judging and Prospecting personality traits also play a central role. Judging types tend to approach life with the industriousness needed to accomplish goals both large and small, while Prospecting types are known for their ability to embrace those fun, spontaneous moments in life and are more likely to actively seek out opportunities to feel good.
Happiness can be regarded as a trait if it meets three criteria: (1) temporal stability, (2) cross-situational consistency, and (3) inner causation. This paper checks whether that is, indeed, the case. The theory that happiness is a personal-character-trait is tested in a (meta) analysis of longitudinal studies.
- Ruut Veenhoven
- 1994
Happiness can be regarded as a trait if it meets three criteria: (1) temporal stability, (2) cross-situational consistency, and (3) inner causation. This paper checks whether that is, indeed, the case. The theory that happiness is a personal-character-trait is tested in a (meta) analysis of longitudinal studies.
- Ruut Veenhoven
- 1994
- The Links Between Personality and Well-Being
- Making Sense of These Findings
- Implications For Improving The Quality of Lives
Forty years ago, two traits from the Big Five personality framework were identified as of particular importance for well-being: These were extraversion (the tendency to be bold, assertive, outgoing, talkative, gregarious, and enthusiastic) and neuroticism (the tendency to experience anxiety, irritability, and various other negative emotions). Extra...
Mapping the links between personality and well-being has, in some ways, been the easy problem. The harder problem concerns exactly how we should think about these findings. What should we conclude from the knowledge that the subjective quality of our lives depends to a significant degree on our personalities? First of all, can we be sure that perso...
To a practitioner’s eye, the links between personality and well-being may seem troubling. Personality traits are often regarded as fixed and unchanging, which makes them seem like dead-ends on the road to a happier life. Perhaps this is why the subject of personality is conspicuously absentfrom many discussions of strategies for building well-being...
Mar 28, 2013 · Dr. David Myers, author of Pursuit of Happiness, identified a number of qualities shared by many people who tend to be happy. From that research, eight concrete characteristics of happy people ...
Apr 26, 2023 · However, research has shown that although subjective wellbeing may be associated with personality traits (e.g. extraversion), that differences in reports of happiness levels over time suggest that, in fact, happiness is not a trait (Norrish & Vella-Brodrick, 2008).
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Nov 16, 2018 · Of the ten sub-divisions, two traits stood out as prime factors in the search for what makes us happy. They are enthusiasm (Extraversion) and low withdrawal (a low score in Neuroticism). Of the other sub-divisions, industriousness (Conscientiousness), compassion (Agreeableness), and intellectual curiosity (Openness) showed an association with happiness and wellbeing.
