Traits, personal strivings and well-being

Neuroticism, extraversion, goals, and subjective well-being: Exploring the relations in young, middle-aged, and older adults

“…Conversely, when analyzing goals as mediators of the influence of traits on SWB, results indicate that the mediational effects of goals are not pronounced, and that the direct effect of traits on SWB remains substantial. However, although personality traits are stronger associated with SWB than goals, goals also account for variance in SWB, even after controlling for the effect of personality traits (Romero et al, 2009). These results underscore the importance to consider different potential determinants as correlates of SWB, since each determinant provides relevant and independent information for the understanding of SWB (Sheldon & Hoon, 2007).…”

“…These results underscore the importance to consider different potential determinants as correlates of SWB, since each determinant provides relevant and independent information for the understanding of SWB (Sheldon & Hoon, 2007). However, despite abundant research, it is only recently that researchers have begun to simultaneously take different determinants into account (e.g., Haslam et al, 2009;Romero et al, 2009;Sheldon & Hoon, 2007).…”

“…Due to the dispositional nature of traits, the theoretical considerations viewing life goals serving a linkage function between traits and behavior (e.g., Cantor, 1990;Costa & McCrae, 1994), the stronger association between traits and SWB as compared to goals (Haslam et al, 2009;Romero et al, 2009), and due to longitudinal evidence indicating a stronger impact of traits on subsequent goal importance rather than vice versa (Lüdtke et al, 2009), we establish a model in which personality traits precede goal importance and SWB, and goal importance precedes SWB. With respect to personality traits, we exclusively focus on neuroticism and extraversion, as earlier research has found these two traits to be most strongly related to overall SWB (Costa & McCrae, 1980;Gomez, Krings, Bangerter, & Grob, 2009;Vittersø & Nilsen, 2002), and extraversion to be substantially associated with goal importance (Lüdtke et al, 2009;Roberts et al, 2004;Roberts & Robins, 2000).…”

“…Due to the dispositional nature of personality traits and their stronger association with SWB as compared to goals (e.g., Haslam et al, 2009;Romero et al, 2009) and due to longitudinal evidence on a stronger impact of traits on subsequent goal importance rather than vice versa (Lüdtke et al, 2009), we opted for a model with personality traits as predictors of both SWB and goal importance, and with goal importance as predictor of SWB.…”

The Role of Domain Satisfaction in Explaining the Paradoxical Association Between Life Satisfaction and Age

“…According to this view, life satisfaction depends more on an individual's temperamental dispositions than on her or his current life situation. Given that age-linked trends for Extraversion and Emotional Stability (the strongest personality correlates of life satisfaction; see Romero, Villar, Luengo, & Gómez-Fraguela, 2009) are generally in opposite directions Domain Life Satisfaction 4 , the net consequence might be a fair degree of absolute stability in life satisfaction judgments.…”