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Personality and happiness.
Adrian Furnham,Chris R. Brewin +1 more
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Over 100 subjects completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the Oxford Happiness Inventory and the results provided confirmatory evidence of previous research as well as validation for the happiness inventory.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 185 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire & Happiness.read more
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The happy personality : A meta-analysis of 137 personality traits and subjective well-being
Kristina M. DeNeve,Harris Cooper +1 more
TL;DR: This meta-analysis used 9 literature search strategies to examine 137 distinct personality constructs as correlates of subjective well-being (SWB), finding personality was found to be equally predictive of life satisfaction, happiness, and positive affect, but significantly less predictive of negative affect.
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Refining the relationship between personality and subjective well-being.
TL;DR: Analysis of individual measures of personality and categories of SWB shows that different personality and SWB scales can be substantively different and that the relationship between the two is typically much larger than previous meta-analyses have indicated.
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The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire: a compact scale for the measurement of psychological well-being
Peter Hills,Michael Argyle +1 more
TL;DR: An improved instrument, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ), has been derived from the Oxford happiness inventory (OHI), which comprises 29 items, each involving the selection of one of four options that are different for each item.
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Big 5 correlates of three measures of subjective well-being
Natalie Hayes,Stephen Joseph +1 more
TL;DR: One hundred and eleven individuals completed the NEO Five Factor Inventory along with three measures of subjective well-being, the Oxford Happiness Inventory, the Depression-Happiness Scale, and the Satisfaction With Life Scale as mentioned in this paper.
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Personality, self-esteem, and demographic predictions of happiness and depression
Helen Cheng,Adrian Furnham +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined correlations and causes of happiness and depression among adolescents and found that extraversion was significantly correlated with positive affect, negative affect, depression, and happiness.
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Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: happy and unhappy people.
Paul T. Costa,Robert R. McCrae +1 more
TL;DR: A model of individual differences in happiness is presented, and the separate and complementary roles of trait and adaptation-level theories in explaining happiness are discussed.
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Personality and Individual Differences: A Natural Science Approach
TL;DR: One: Descriptive and one: Scientific Description of personality: The Problem of Classification and Classification of personality traits: The modern view of type and trait theories and Factor Analysis: Situationism versus Type-Trait Theories as mentioned in this paper.
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Chapter 12 – The Psychophysiological Nature of Introversion—Extraversion: A Modification of Eysenck's Theory
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The press of personality: A study of conversations between introverts and extraverts.
TL;DR: In this article, 52 women were grouped in pairs to get acquainted in two conversations, one with an introvert and another with an extravert, and the women were selected from their scores on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and were asked to provide accounts of their conv