Kang Weixi, Malvaso Antonio
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
University of Pavia, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 6;14:1189194. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1189194. eCollection 2023.
It is established that personality traits contribute to life satisfaction but why they are connected are far less understood. This research report tested if self-rated health (SRH) which is one's subjective ratings of their health and has a high predictivity of actual health mediates the associations between the Big Five model of personality and life satisfaction in a cohort ( = 5,845) of older adults from the UK. By using Pearson's correlation analysis and mediation analysis, the current research reported positive correlations between Agreeableness, Openness, Conscientiousness, and Extraversion, SRH, and life satisfaction. However, Neuroticism was negatively correlated with SRH and life satisfaction. The main findings were that SRH partially mediates the associations between all traits in the Big Five and life satisfaction in older adults. This study began novel exploration on if SRH could explain the connections between the Big Five and life satisfaction. Results revealed SRH could partially explain these associations in all traits. These results may offer additional support to recently developed integrated account of life satisfaction, which argues that there are no single determinants of life satisfaction. Rather, life satisfaction is made up by many factors including but not limited to personality and health.
人们已经确定人格特质有助于生活满意度，但它们为何相互关联却鲜为人知。本研究报告测试了自我评定健康状况（SRH）——即个人对自身健康的主观评定，对实际健康状况具有较高预测性——是否在来自英国的一组老年人（n = 5845）中，介导了人格五因素模型与生活满意度之间的关联。通过使用皮尔逊相关分析和中介分析，本研究报告了宜人性、开放性、尽责性和外向性、自我评定健康状况以及生活满意度之间的正相关关系。然而，神经质与自我评定健康状况和生活满意度呈负相关。主要研究结果是，自我评定健康状况部分介导了老年人五因素模型中所有特质与生活满意度之间的关联。本研究首次探讨了自我评定健康状况是否能够解释五因素模型与生活满意度之间的联系。结果表明，自我评定健康状况能够部分解释所有特质中的这些关联。这些结果可能为最近发展起来的生活满意度综合理论提供额外支持，该理论认为不存在单一的生活满意度决定因素。相反，生活满意度由许多因素构成，包括但不限于人格和健康。
