Processes Underlying Links to Subjective Well-being: Material Concerns, Autonomy, and Personality

Weiting Ng ()

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2015, vol. 16, issue 6, 1575-1591

Abstract: This study explored the mediating processes underlying the associations between autonomy and subjective well-being (SWB), and those between personality and affective well-being. Using the World Values Survey dataset from Singapore, the results showed that autonomy and financial satisfaction were the strongest predictors of life satisfaction and happiness, whereas personality traits were the strongest predictors of positive feelings. Both personality and material concerns predicted negative feelings to some extent. Mediation analyses showed that the associations between autonomy and SWB, and those between personality and positive and negative emotions were mediated by material concerns. Thus, this study illustrates the process models of different SWB facets (life satisfaction, happiness, positive and negative emotions) and highlights that dispositional factors (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, and autonomy) can exert both direct and indirect effects (via material factors) on SWB. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Autonomy; Mediating effects; Subjective well-being; Personality; Financial satisfaction; Material concerns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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