Personality traits are among the strongest and most reliable predictors of well-being. drsmillie explains why.
, they discovered that the links between personality and well-being were even more robust than previously thought. Again, the two strongest predictors of well-being were extraversion and neuroticism .
Recently, we saw the need for an updated meta-analysis of the links between personality and well-being. Many more studies had been conducted over the last decade, so it was an open question whether the conclusions of the previous meta-analysis would still hold up. We also wanted to provide a more nuanced understanding of these associations, by widening the focus beyond the Big Five and including a broader set of well-being measures.
combined findings from 465 datasets, representing over 300,000 individual participants. To this we added four new datasets comprising nearly 4,000 participants. This was arguably the most thorough examination of the links between personality and well-being ever conducted.of our meta-analysis suggested that the links between personality and well-being are robust and reproducible.
Second, our findings were very similar across a range of questionnaires used to assess the Big Five, and a six-factor alternative to the Big Five known as themodel was also comparable in its predictive power. Thus, the links between personality and well-being appear to generalize across different measurement traditions within the field—they are not a quirk of any one framework or measure.
Perhaps most impressive was the strength with which personality predicted well-being. The meta-analytic correlations we obtained between the Big Five traits and well-being—averaging across nine prominent subjective and psychological well-being assessments—ranged from
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