Personality trait change and life satisfaction in adults: The roles of age and hedonic balance

Magee, Christopher A.; Miller, Leonie M; Heaven, Patrick C. L.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2013.05.022

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“…This construct refers to the balance of positive and negative emotions, measured as the difference between the two. Some studies addressed the association between hedonic balance and other well-being-related constructs, such as life satisfaction [66]. Furthermore, hedonic balance may account for job-related well-being and job satisfaction.…”

Section: Teachers' Emotions and Hedonic Balancementioning

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Unravelling Teacher Job Satisfaction: The Contribution of Collective Efficacy and Emotions Towards Professional Role

Buonomo

Fiorilli

Benevene

2020

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore whether, and to what extent, collective beliefs and emotions towards professional role could predict job satisfaction, above and beyond the role of self-efficacy and emotions towards students. More specifically, we expected job satisfaction to be incrementally predicted by beliefs and emotions related to professional role (collective efficacy and role-related hedonic balance). Design/Methodology/Approach: The analysis was performed through the administration of a questionnaire to 266 Italian secondary school teachers. After having assessed measures of reliability, correlational analyses and a hierarchical regression model were performed. Findings: Results showed that collective efficacy and hedonic balance related to professional role have a unique effect on job satisfaction, accounting for nearly the 30% of its variance. Research Limitations/Implications: Despite some limitations related to the cross-sectional design, the study suggests a practical implication for teacher training, as well as underlying the need to study schools from an organizational point of view. Originality/value: The paper contributes to the psychological research on the role of the organizational dimensions in teachers’ well-being at work.

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Section: Teachers' Emotions and Hedonic Balancementioning

confidence: 99%

Unravelling Teacher Job Satisfaction: The Contribution of Collective Efficacy and Emotions Towards Professional Role

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2020

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“…On the other hand, a positive relationship was observed between the agreeableness trait and life satisfaction in many studies (including Magee et al, 2013). [44] Therefore, it could be concluded that women within the age range of 20-30 years have higher levels of agreeableness and life satisfaction compared to men at the same age.…”

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2016

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Aim: This was a causal-comparative study aimed to comparatively evaluate the personality characteristics and life satisfaction among the individuals resident of district 6 Tehran, Iran. Method: The research population consisted of 661 individuals (≥20-year-old; 49.5% male and 51.5% female) selected through stratified random sampling method in five different age groups. The data were collected using researcher-made demographic questionnaire, NEO Five-Factor Inventory short form, and satisfaction with life scale (Diener et al.). The data were analyzed with independent t-test. Result and Discussion: Results of independent t-test indicated that the 20-30 years old women received significantly higher scores in neuroticism and agreeableness features than men and between men and women were not observed a significant difference in extroversion, openness to experience, and conscientiousness in different age groups. In addition, the life satisfaction score of the 20-30 years old age group of women was significantly higher than men, other personality characteristics in relation to life satisfaction were not significantly different. Conclusion: The status of neuroticism, agreeableness, and life satisfaction in 20-30 years old women were discussed. Further conducting studies on the psychological characters of young age groups of women is necessary.

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“… career choices (Ackerman & Beier, 2003;Eley, Eley, Bertello, & Rogers-Clark, 2012;Holland, 1997;Jones et al, 2013;Malhi et al, 2011),  career satisfaction (Richardson, Lounsbury, Bhaskar, Gibson, & Drost, 2009)  life satisfaction Josefsson et al, 2011;Magee, Miller, & Heaven, 2013).…”

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“…The reasons for observed personality differences across generational cohorts has been debated (Robbins et al, 2010), with some concluding that changes in the sociocultural context, particularly cultural shifts in child-raising norms, are responsible (Smits, Dolan, Vorst, Wicherts, & Timmerman, 2011;Twenge, 2009). However, a systematic review of the literature on adult personality identified that personality change does occur during adulthood (Helson et al, 2002), with age moderating trait expression (Magee et al, 2013). Using Dweck's (2008) perspective, maturation impacts personality such that biological tendencies are modified by the experiences, beliefs and goals of individuals.…”

Section: Trait Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Openness and conscientiousness have been reported as strong moderators of occupational choice and successful work performance (Barrick & Mount, 1991;Tokar, Fischer, & Mezydlo Subich, 1998;Woods & Hampson, 2010), including in medicine (Doherty & Nugent, 2011). Higher levels of neuroticism decreased life satisfaction (Magee et al, 2013), while lower levels increased job satisfaction (Tokar et al, 1998). Higher levels of extraversion were found in individuals working in roles with a high need for interaction with others (Barrick & Mount, 1991).…”

Section: Personality In Career Selection or Predictionmentioning

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Investigating the motivation and personal traits of allied health professionals working in remote and rural Australia: the Remote and Rural Allied Health Motivation and Personality (RRAHMP) study

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Background: Allied health (AH) workforce shortages in remote and rural Australia contribute to poorer health outcomes for residents in those areas. This gap in health workforce has long been recognised as problematic and persists despite strategies for improving recruitment and retention of AH professionals. This thesis reports on a new approach to addressing the recruitment to, and retention in, remote areas of AH professionals by investigating the personal traits and motivation characteristics of AH professionals with and without remote area work experience. Recent research has shown that the nursing and medical professions can be differentiated by personality traits, but little is known about the personality traits of AH professionals. Therefore, this research aimed to address that knowledge gap.The aim of the study was to identify the personality traits and motivation characteristics that might assist an individual to 'thrive' rather than 'survive' in the remote work environment. It Health achieved a sample size of 562 AH professionals, with full demographic data and a completed TCI. Dependent variables were the TCI dimensions, while independent variables were remote experience, gender, age, profession and grouping of the professions as either person-or technique-oriented. Analysis was descriptive of the whole sample and comparative between groups using independent samples t-test, ANOVA and subsequent two-way ANOVA with 95% confidence level.Strand 2 used Personal Construct Psychology's key technique, the repertory grid interview, to understand how AH professionals construed working in remote areas, in terms of the personal traits and motivation that contribute to success. Participants (n=34) were a purposively selected subset of Strand 1. The repertory grid interviews produced both iii qualitative and quantitative data. These were analysed qualitatively to identify the personal and motivation characteristics, and quantitatively using singular value decomposition and Euclidean distance to compare differences construed by participants between remote and other AH work situations. Results:The following key findings were determined from personality trait results, together with the repertory grid results: The AH professionals appear to have mature personality characteristics, i.e. high or very high levels of Reward Dependence, Persistence, Self-directedness and Cooperativeness. The AH professionals with remote experience had higher Novelty Seeking and average Harm Avoidance levels compared with AH professionals without remote experience. Younger AH professionals tended towards higher Harm Avoidance levels.

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Personality trait change and life satisfaction in adults: The roles of age and hedonic balance

Cited by 44 publications

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Unravelling Teacher Job Satisfaction: The Contribution of Collective Efficacy and Emotions Towards Professional Role

Unravelling Teacher Job Satisfaction: The Contribution of Collective Efficacy and Emotions Towards Professional Role

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Investigating the motivation and personal traits of allied health professionals working in remote and rural Australia: the Remote and Rural Allied Health Motivation and Personality (RRAHMP) study

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