Dose Self-Esteem Mediates the Association Between Personality Traits and Happiness? A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Abstract

The present study was set out to explore the association among self-report happiness, personality traits and self-esteem in the Greek cultural setting. In particular, it was examined the mediating role of self-esteem on the relation of extraversion, neuroticism and happiness. In the study participated 207 Greek adults aged 25-60 years old. Three different questionnaires were administered to all participants: the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ), the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised-Abbreviated (EPQR-A) and the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (RSE). Results indicated that the three constructs (self-esteem and two personality traits) jointly explained the 67% of happiness variability. Happiness is best predicted by self-esteem, following by neuroticism (negatively) and extraversion (positively). Moreover, structural equation model (SEM) analysis showed that self-esteem only partially mediated the effects of both extroversion and neuroticism on self-report happiness.

“I’m perfectly imperfect”: Exploring the relationship between PERMA model of wellbeing with self-esteem among persons with disabilities

“…That is why even the previous studies said that happiness is strongly related to self-esteem (Tsigilis & Srebanite, 2015;Lyubomirsky, Tkach, & Dimmateo, 2006;Baumeister et al, 2003), in multidimensional approach like in the previous study, we see that there is no association between the two variables and even the pillars on the context of PWDs. But looking for the difference between other variables to happiness or wellbeing, multidimensional approach will be suggested to be used for it is more comprehensive than one-dimensional approach to see what part is weak and what part is strong; what part is high and what part is low to be easily noticed the problems and the factors that will need improvements.…”

“…The result contradicts the previous studies wherein self-esteem is strongly related to happiness (Tsigilis & Srebanite, 2015;Dogan, Totan, & Sapmaz, 2013;Lyubomirsky, Tkach, & Dimmateo, 2006;Baumeister et al, 2003). The relationship may be affected by the difference of the one-dimensional happiness scale to multidimensional wellbeing like the PERMA wherein the one-dimensional happiness scale only focuses on single item happiness while wellbeing scale like PERMA focuses not just in a single dimension but multidimensional.…”

“…In the context of the study, though different literatures found that self-esteem is associated with happiness (Tsigilis & Srebanite, 2015;Lyubomirsky, Tkach, & Dimmateo, 2006;Baumeister et al, 2003), there are still gaps if this correlation is true among PWDs. Thus, given the context and situations of Filipino PWDs, the main focused of the study is to verify this relationship.…”

“…Also, there are existing literatures that support the relationship between happiness and self-esteem wherein happiness have strong and direct relationship to self-esteem (Tsigilis & Srebanite, 2015;Dogan, Totan, & Sapmaz, 2013;Lyubomirsky, Tkach, & Dimmateo, 2006;Baumeister et al, 2003) and using the structural equation modeling, the feedback to the young adults' profiles have direct effect on their self-esteem as well as wellbeing (Valkenburg, Peter, & Schouten, 2006). But the relationship between self-esteem and the PERMA Model is still understudied among PWDs.…”

Personalidad y Autoestima: Un análisis sobre el importante papel de sus relaciones

“…A pesar de que la personalidad y la autoestima representan dos de los constructos más estudiados en psicología (Mruk, 2017;Rhodewalt & Tragakis, 2003), la naturaleza teórica de su relación persiste como un tema de debate actual Zeigler-Hill, Besser, Myers, Southard, & Malkin, 2013). Numerosos estudios han explorado este vínculo en distintos contextos como Alemania (Luan et al, 2018;Michaelides et al, 2016), Argentina (Helueni & Enrique, 2015), Brasil (Paiva, Pimente, & Moura, 2017;Schaffhuser, Wagner, Lüdtke, & Allemand, 2014), Bélgica (Rassart, Luyckx, Moons, & Weets, 2014), China (Luk & Bond, 1993;Shi, Liu, Yang, & Wang, 2015;Zeigler-Hill et al, 2015), Eslovaquia (Zitny & Halama, 2011), Estados Unidos (Hair & Graziano, 2003;Shackelford & Michalski, 2011), Estonia (Kaare, Mõttus, & Konstabel, 2009), Filipinas (Chen, Widjaja, & Yen, 2015), Grecia (Tsigilis & Srebauite, 2015), Inglaterra (Hills, Francis, & Jennings, 2006), Indonesia (Chen et al, 2015), Israel (Zeigler-Hill et al, 2015), Japón (Shikishima et al, 2018), Malasia (Keng Cheng & Law, 2015), Noruega (Halvorsen & Heyerdahl, 2006;von Soest, Wagner, Hansen, & Gerstorf, 2017), Portugal (Neto & Mullet, 2004), Suecia (Lawenius & Veisson, 1996), Taiwan (Chen et al, 2015), Tailandia (Chen et al, 2015), o Turquía (Koruklu, 2015). Por lo general, se observa que la autoestima se encuentra fuertemente asociada al neuroticismo (Bleidorn et al, 2016;…”