Xu Le, Liu Ru-De, Ding Yi, Mou Xiaohong, Wang Jia, Liu Ying
Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal UniversityBeijing, China.
Graduate School of Education, Fordham University, New YorkNY, United States.
Front Psychol. 2017 Jun 29;8:1076. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01076. eCollection 2017.
Previous findings showed the associations between each of the Big Five personality trait and adolescents' life satisfaction were different. Some traits (extraversion and neuroticism) correlated with adolescents' life satisfaction, while other traits did not have the same associations with adolescents' life satisfaction. In order to explain why the Big Five traits differed in their associations with adolescents' life satisfaction, the present study verified the relations between each of the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction, and demonstrated the mediating effects of coping style on the relations between these personality traits and life satisfaction in a sample of 2,357 Chinese adolescents. The results demonstrated that four of the Big Five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism) had significant associations with life satisfaction. Further, coping style partially mediated the relations between these four traits and life satisfaction, whereas coping style fully mediated the relation between openness to new experience and life satisfaction. The results implied a plausible explanation for why the Big Five traits differed in their associations with life satisfaction found among the previous literature: that there might be some partial or full mediation variables (such as coping style in this study) left unexamined. Theoretical and practical implications of this study on further research and educational practice are discussed.
先前的研究结果表明，大五人格特质中的每一种与青少年生活满意度之间的关联各不相同。一些特质（外向性和神经质）与青少年的生活满意度相关，而其他特质与青少年的生活满意度并无相同的关联。为了解释为何大五人格特质与青少年生活满意度的关联存在差异，本研究验证了大五人格特质中的每一种与生活满意度之间的关系，并在2357名中国青少年样本中证明了应对方式在这些人格特质与生活满意度之间关系中的中介作用。结果表明，大五人格特质中的四种（外向性、宜人性、尽责性和神经质）与生活满意度存在显著关联。此外，应对方式部分中介了这四种特质与生活满意度之间的关系，而应对方式完全中介了开放性与生活满意度之间的关系。这些结果为先前文献中发现的大五人格特质与生活满意度的关联为何存在差异提供了一个合理的解释：可能存在一些未被检验的部分或完全中介变量（如本研究中的应对方式）。本研究对进一步研究和教育实践的理论及实践意义进行了讨论。
