Most People's Life Satisfaction Matches Their Personality Traits: True Correlations in Multitrait, Multirater, Multisample Data.
Despite numerous meta-analyses, the true extent to which life satisfaction reflects personality traits has remained unclear due to overreliance on a single method to assess both and insufficient attention to construct overlaps. Using data from three samples tested in different languages (Estonian, N...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Personality & Social Psychology Vol. 126; no. 4; pp. 676 - 694 |
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American Psychological Association
Apr2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=177818005&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 177818005 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00223514 JSS jtl: Journal of Personality & Social Psychology issn: 00223514 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2024 vid: 126 iid: 4 pid: 34 pub: American Psychological Association artinfo: ui: 177818005 10.1037/pspp0000501 ppf: 676 ppct: 18 formats: tig: atl: Most People's Life Satisfaction Matches Their Personality Traits: True Correlations in Multitrait, Multirater, Multisample Data. aug: au: Mõttus, René Realo, Anu Allik, Jüri Ausmees, Liisi Henry, Samuel McCrae, Robert R. Vainik, Uku affil: Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu Department of Psychology, University of Warwick Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu su: Personality Satisfaction Extraversion Life satisfaction Language ability testing Agreeableness sug: subj: Personality Satisfaction Extraversion Life satisfaction Language ability testing Agreeableness keyword: life satisfaction multirater personality traits well-being life satisfaction multirater personality traits well-being ab: Despite numerous meta-analyses, the true extent to which life satisfaction reflects personality traits has remained unclear due to overreliance on a single method to assess both and insufficient attention to construct overlaps. Using data from three samples tested in different languages (Estonian, N = 20,886; Russian, N = 768; English, N = 600), we combined self- and informant-reports to estimate personality domains' and nuances' true correlations (r) with general life satisfaction (LS) and satisfactions with eight life domains (DSs), while controlling for single-method and occasion-specific biases and random error, and avoiding direct construct overlaps. The associations replicated well across samples. The Big Five domains and nuances allowed predicting LS with accuracies up to r ≈.80–.90 in independent (sub)samples. Emotional stability, extraversion, and conscientiousness correlated r ≈.30–.50 with LS, while its correlations with openness and agreeableness were small. At the nuances level, low LS was most strongly associated with feeling misunderstood, unexcited, indecisive, envious, bored, used, unable, and unrewarded (r ≈.40–.70). Supporting LS's construct validity, DSs had similar personality correlates among themselves and with LS, and an aggregated DS correlated r ≈.90 with LS. LS's approximately 10-year stability was r =.70 and its longitudinal associations with personality traits mirrored cross-sectional ones. We conclude that without common measurement limitations, most people's life satisfaction is highly consistent with their personality traits, even across many years. So, satisfaction is usually shaped by these same relatively stable factors that shape personality traits more broadly. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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