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The Psychology of Quality of LifeEffects of Personality on Wellbeing

The Psychology of Quality of Life: Effects of Personality on Wellbeing [Research has shown that personality has a strong effect on happiness, subjective wellbeing, and positive mental health. More specifically, research has shown that subjective wellbeing is positively related with traits such as extraversion, self-esteem, positive affective disposition, mindfulness, optimism, locus of control, expectancy of perceived control, pollyannaism, and resilience. Subjective wellbeing is also negatively related with many forms of psychopathology—neuroticism, anxiety, and depression. The positive traits predispose people to seek positive situations and respond to them is ways that enhance their subjective wellbeing, while the negative traits have the opposite effect. Also, people who are mindful of their surrounding tend to report higher levels of subjective wellbeing, especially using measures that focus on the here and now. From positive psychology we learn that people who have certain character strengths (signature strength: hope, zest, gratitude, love, and curiosity) are likely to experience higher levels of wellbeing compared to those who lack these strengths. The effect of personality on wellbeing and positive mental health can be explained by instrumental theory, temperament theory, top-down theory, set-point theory, the genotype theory of happiness, dynamic equilibrium theory, and homeostatically-protected mood theory.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Psychology of Quality of LifeEffects of Personality on Wellbeing

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 83)
Sirgy, M. Joseph
The Psychology of Quality of Life — Jun 10, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-71887-9
Pages
207 –221
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-71888-6_9
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Abstract

[Research has shown that personality has a strong effect on happiness, subjective wellbeing, and positive mental health. More specifically, research has shown that subjective wellbeing is positively related with traits such as extraversion, self-esteem, positive affective disposition, mindfulness, optimism, locus of control, expectancy of perceived control, pollyannaism, and resilience. Subjective wellbeing is also negatively related with many forms of psychopathology—neuroticism, anxiety, and depression. The positive traits predispose people to seek positive situations and respond to them is ways that enhance their subjective wellbeing, while the negative traits have the opposite effect. Also, people who are mindful of their surrounding tend to report higher levels of subjective wellbeing, especially using measures that focus on the here and now. From positive psychology we learn that people who have certain character strengths (signature strength: hope, zest, gratitude, love, and curiosity) are likely to experience higher levels of wellbeing compared to those who lack these strengths. The effect of personality on wellbeing and positive mental health can be explained by instrumental theory, temperament theory, top-down theory, set-point theory, the genotype theory of happiness, dynamic equilibrium theory, and homeostatically-protected mood theory.]

Published: Jun 10, 2021

Keywords: Personality; Happiness; Subjective wellbeing; Positive mental health; Extraversion; Self-esteem; Positive affective disposition; Mindfulness; Optimism; Locus of control; Expectancy; Pollyannaism; Resilience; Neuroticism; Anxiety; Depression; Instrumental theory; Temperament theory; Top-down theory; Set-point theory; Genotype theory; Dynamic equilibrium; Homeostatically-protected mood

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