The happy personality: A meta-analysis of 137 personality traits and subjective well-being.

DeNeve, Kristina M.; Cooper, Harris

doi:10.1037/0033-2909.124.2.197

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“…While the overall effect sizes of these relations were modest in size (respectively ˆϭ Ϫ.178, ˆϭ Ϫ.205, ˆϭ Ϫ.151), they are nevertheless comparable with (e.g., DeNeve & Cooper, 1998) or only slightly lower (Kashdan, 2007;Watson, Wiese, Vaidya, & Tellegen, 1999) than observed relationships between average levels of emotionality and psychological well-being, representative of the more traditional static approach to the role of emotions in psychological well-being. In other words, next to how people feel on average, it is equally important to study and pay attention to how people's feelings change for understanding and evaluating their psychological well-being.…”

Section: Overall Relations Between Patterns Of Emotion Dynamics and Pmentioning

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The relation between short-term emotion dynamics and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis.

Houben¹,

Noortgate²,

Kuppens³

2015

Psychological Bulletin

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956

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Not only how good or bad people feel on average, but also how their feelings fluctuate across time is crucial for psychological health. The last 2 decades have witnessed a surge in research linking various patterns of short-term emotional change to adaptive or maladaptive psychological functioning, often with conflicting results. A meta-analysis was performed to identify consistent relationships between patterns of short-term emotion dynamics-including patterns reflecting emotional variability (measured in terms of within-person standard deviation of emotions across time), emotional instability (measured in terms of the magnitude of consecutive emotional changes), and emotional inertia of emotions over time (measured in terms of autocorrelation)-and relatively stable indicators of psychological well-being or psychopathology. We determined how such relationships are moderated by the type of emotional change, type of psychological well-being or psychopathology involved, valence of the emotion, and methodological factors. A total of 793 effect sizes were identified from 79 articles (N ϭ 11,381) and were subjected to a 3-level meta-analysis. The results confirmed that overall, low psychological well-being co-occurs with more variable (overall ˆϭ Ϫ.178), unstable (overall ˆϭ Ϫ.205), but also more inert (overall ˆϭ Ϫ.151) emotions. These effect sizes were stronger when involving negative compared with positive emotions. Moreover, the results provided evidence for consistency across different types of psychological well-being and psychopathology in their relation with these dynamical patterns, although specificity was also observed. The findings demonstrate that psychological flourishing is characterized by specific patterns of emotional fluctuations across time, and provide insight into what constitutes optimal and suboptimal emotional functioning.Keywords: psychological well-being, psychopathology, emotional variability, emotional instability, emotional inertia A fundamental feature of our emotions and feelings is that they change over time. The patterns of emotional fluctuations reflect how people deal with changes in the environment and how they regulate their emotions (Larsen, 2000), and both contribute importantly to their psychological well-being. Indeed, a surge of research focusing on the time dynamic patterns of emotional experience has shown that, next to how people usually feel or how they feel on average, the patterns with which people's emotional experiences change over time provide unique information that is relevant for psychological well-being. Here we present a meta-analysis of studies investigating the relation between on the one hand short-term dynamical patterns of emotions and on the other hand stable forms of psychological well-being and psychopathology, to identify the patterns of emotional change associated with general and specific forms of psychological health.We define psychological well-being as a broad construct that involves either or both the presence of positive indicators of psychologi...

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Section: Overall Relations Between Patterns Of Emotion Dynamics and Pmentioning

confidence: 69%

The relation between short-term emotion dynamics and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis.

Houben¹,

Noortgate²,

Kuppens³

2015

Psychological Bulletin

819

956

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“…If we sum the number of positive emotions (joy and contentment) and subtract the number of negative emotions (anxiety), A and B would be equally happy, and happier than C. Indeed, decades of research on negative and positive affectivity suggests that high levels of positive emotion and low levels of negative emotion are an essential component of health and subjective well-being (DeNeve & Cooper, 1998;Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999;Fredrickson, 2001;Watson & Pennebaker, 1989).…”

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Emodiversity and the emotional ecosystem.

Quoidbach¹,

Gruber²,

Mikolajczak³

et al. 2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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“…The data do not permit us to control for detailed regional characteristics nor access to psychological services. Also, there is an absence of personality factors that are clearly implicated in well-being within the dataset 43,44,45 . Furthermore, the crosssectional nature of the data renders causal identification of parameters difficult.…”

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The distribution of wellbeing in Ireland

Delaney

Doyle

McKenzie

et al. 2009

Ir. j. psychol. Med.

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Objectives: There is a substantial knowledge gap about the distribution of mental heath in community populations. The European Social Survey is particularly useful as it contains information on over 40,000 individuals, including 2,286 Irish adults. The objective of this study is to conduct a large scale statistical analysis to examine the distribution and determinants of mental well-being in a large representative sample of the Irish population.Method: Analysis of the European Social Survey using robust multiple linear and non-linear regression techniques. The data-set contains WHO-5 scores and subjective well-being for a sample of 2,286 Irish people interviewed in their homes in 2005.Results: Ireland has the second highest average WHO-5 score among the 22 countries in the European Social Survey. Multiple linear regression analysis across the distribution of WHO-5 reveals a well-being gradient largely related to education and social capital variables. A probit model examining the determinants of vulnerability to psychiatric morbidity reveals that a similar set of factors predict scores below the threshold point on the WHO-5 scale. Conclusions:The results are consistent with marked differences in mental well-being across education levels and variables relating to social capital factors. Such indicators provide a useful index for policy-makers and researchers. However, much further work is needed to identify causal mechanisms generating observed differences in mental health across different socioeconomic groups.

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The happy personality: A meta-analysis of 137 personality traits and subjective well-being.

Cited by 2,223 publications

References 192 publications

The relation between short-term emotion dynamics and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis.

The relation between short-term emotion dynamics and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis.

Emodiversity and the emotional ecosystem.

The distribution of wellbeing in Ireland

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