Naslov
PERSONALITY AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS

Autori
Milas, Goran ; Kaliterna Lipovčan, Ljiljana, Žakić Milas, Danijela

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
16th European Conference on Personality Psychology, Book of Abstracts, Addendum / Di Blas, Lisa ; Carnaghi, Andrea ; Ferrante, Donatella ; Piccoli, Valentina - Trst : EAPP, 2012, 1-2

Skup
16th European Conference on Personality Psychology

Mjesto i datum
Trst, Italija, 10.07.2012. - 14.07.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Personality; Subjective Well-Being; Age

Sažetak
This paper describes the relationship between SWB and Big-Five personality factors on a large representative sample of Croatina citizens divided into 6 age groups. It is now well established fact that personality and SWB correlate moderately to strongly. However the mechanisms that link personality to SWB are still not fully understood. We hypothesized that personality affects SWB in two ways, firstly by providing dispositional basis of positive/negative affect and secondly by enabling better or worse coping mechanisms in various life situations. The latter hypothesis implies that the pattern of correlations would not be the same for distinct age groups because of different life situations they are facing. We used Satisfaction with life scale (Diener et al., 1985) as a cognitive measure of SWB and Happiness measure form the Fordyce (1988) scale and Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) (Cummins, 2002) as affective measures. The IPIP15 is a short version of the International Personality Item Pool, cross-cultural instrument targeted to measure the Big-Five domains. The results confirm earlier findings that Extraversion and Emotional stability have the highest correlations with SWB. While not contributing the SWB in youth, Intellect showed strongest correlation with SWB after 50, while Agreeableness tends to be correlated only within the youngest and the oldest category.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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