The Five-Factor Model of Personality, Subjective Well-Being, and Social Adaptation: Generalizability to the Spanish Context

Abstract

The relationships between the five-factor model of personality, subjective well-being, and social adaptation were examined in two Spanish groups, one of 112 undergraduate students and one of 177 participants from the general population. Analyses showed a clear pattern of low but positive associations among scores on well-being, social adaptation, and four of the five factors of personality (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability), very similar to those obtained by previous research in the American context.

Estimating the effect on happiness through question randomization: An application to blood donation

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“…More generally, several personal, demographic, socio-economic and institutional factors have been shown to be associated with individual happiness and to interact with the happiness effect of pro-social behavior: personality traits (e.g., Furnham and Cheng, 1997;Ruiz, 2005;Demır and Weitekamp, 2007); age (e.g., Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008;Frijters and Beatton, 2012;Wunder et al, 2013;Laaksonen, 2018); health (e.g., Gerdtham and Johannesson, 2001;Graham, 2008;Sabatini, 2014); education (e.g., Gerdtham and Johannesson, 2001;Cuñado and de Gracia, 2012;Nikolaev and Rusakov, 2016); religiosity (e.g., Stark and Maier, 2008;Sahraian et al, 2013;Francis et al, 2017;Frey, 2018); income (e.g., Clark and Oswald, 1996;Frey and Stutzer, 2002;Blanchflower and Oswald, 2004;Boes and Winkelmann, 2010;Powdthavee, 2010); marital status (e.g., Gerdtham and Johannesson, 2001;Stutzer and Frey, 2006); having children (e.g., Cetre et al, 2016); social capital (e.g., Leung et al, 2011;Rodríguez-Pose and von Berlepsch, 2014); unemployment (e.g., Clark and Oswald, 1994;Di Tella et al, 2001;Frey and Stutzer, 2002);inflation (e.g., Di Tella et al, 2001;Frey and Stutzer, 2002); economic and political freedom (e.g., Veenhoven, 2000;Frey and Stutzer, 2002); democratic participation (e.g., Frey andStutzer...…”

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