Personality Traits and Positive/Negative Affects: An Analysis of Meaning in Life among Adults

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“…On the other hand, NA was also positively and significantly associated with the two subscales of PIL. Previous studies have found that the purpose of life has been related to greater well-being (e.g., Işik and Üzbe, 2015), more positive affect, and less negative affect. However, it is suggested that psychological interventions aimed at re-signifying experiences and finding new meaning in their lives could help to cushion the negative effects of the pandemic situation.…”

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Individual Differences Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age, Gender, Personality, and Positive Psychology

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Research on individual differences in facing the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be crucial in order to design diverse and highly effective intervention strategies. This study uses a sample of 302 North American participants who were recruited through the crowdsourcing platform ProA; different profiles were established, profiling variables of interest in facing the COVID-19 outbreak. Socio-demographic and psychological (personality traits, gratitude, life purpose, and religiosity) variables were explored. These results are of interest if we want to deepen the study of individual differences at both a theoretical and applied level.

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Individual Differences Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age, Gender, Personality, and Positive Psychology

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“…However, the lack of relation with EWB is not in line with those research findings. Again, it might be that threats influence emotional well-being through negative affects only, as it has been demonstrated that positive and negative affect are distinct dimensions with different correlates (Diener and Emmons, 1984;Raufaste and Vautier, 2008;Işik and Üzbe, 2015). The construct of emotional wellbeing would have been captured more comprehensively if we had incorporated such a dimension.…”

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Psychological Resources Protect Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study During the French Lockdown

Pellerin

Raufaste

2020

Front. Psychol.

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This longitudinal study investigated the capability of various positive psychological resources to directly or indirectly protect specific well-being outcomes and moderate the effects on well-being of health and economic threats in a lockdown situation during the 2020 health crisis in France. At the beginning of lockdown (wave 1), participants (N = 470) completed self-assessment questionnaires to document their initial level of well-being and state of nine different well-established psychological resources, measured as traits: optimism, hope, self-efficacy, gratitude toward the world, self-transcendence, wisdom, gratitude of being, peaceful disengagement, and acceptance. Three weeks later, a weekly follow-up was started to record changes in well-being and reported threats for a duration of 5 weeks (waves 2–6). Results show that psychological resources efficiently protected well-being in a variety of ways: they buffered the adverse effects of reported threats to health and wealth, increased the well-being averages, and reduced the decline in well-being over time. More specifically, emotional well-being was positively predicted by hope, gratitude of being, and, to a lesser level, by acceptance; psychological well-being by self-efficacy, personal wisdom, and gratitude of being; social well-being only by gratitude toward the world; and inner well-being by optimism, gratitude of being, and acceptance. The study emphasizes the importance of cultivating psychological resources in ordinary times to protect individuals' well-being when difficult and extraordinary circumstances occur. It also offers clues to the kind of resources one may want to develop.

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“…There have been studies done with different age stages, based on the assumption that meaning may change with age (Reker, 2005;. In a study from Turkey, however, the presence of meaning showed no meaningful difference between age stages, while the source of meaning actually diminished (Işık & Üzbe, 2015). In another study, affective meaning displays no difference between young and older people; whereas the cognitive meaning appears to increase with age (Scannell, Allen, & Burton, 2002).…”

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Mental Well-Being Predictivity of Personal Meaning Profile in Various Age Groups

Demirbaş-Çelik¹

2018

JETS

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The purpose of this research is to examine which factors of personal meaning profile explain mental well-being in different age stage. Although personal meaning has many different definitions, this research approaches it in seven factors; achievement, relationship, religion, self-transcendence, self-acceptance, intimacy, and fair treatment. The participants in this study were 410 (226 female, 184 male) representing three separate groups (Adolescents, emerging adults, and adults). Whether Personal meaning and mental well-being varied based on age was analyzed via ANOVA. Personal Meaning’s predictability of mental well-being was analyzed via multiple regression analysis. First, the mental well-being productivity of personal meaning in the whole group was examined. According to the examination, it was found that all factors except for religion explain mental wellbeing. These factors account for 54% of the variance. Secondly, multiple regression analysis was done for the personal meaning factors for each group. According to results: Achievement, relationship, and self-transcendence in adolescents; achievement, self-transcendence, self-acceptance, intimacy, and fair treatment in emerging adults; and intimacy, self-transcendence, self-acceptance and fair treatment in adults were significant predictors mental well-being. These factors account for 43% of total variance in adolescent, 65% in emerging adults, and 42% in adults.

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Personality Traits and Positive/Negative Affects: An Analysis of Meaning in Life among Adults

Cited by 20 publications

References 47 publications

Individual Differences Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age, Gender, Personality, and Positive Psychology

Individual Differences Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age, Gender, Personality, and Positive Psychology

Psychological Resources Protect Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study During the French Lockdown

Mental Well-Being Predictivity of Personal Meaning Profile in Various Age Groups

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