The research study likewise discovered that personality type effect life, social, and work complete satisfaction, with conscientiousness for work complete satisfaction and extraversion and agreeableness for social complete satisfaction. Increases in these characteristics result in increased general complete satisfaction.
According to the research study, particular characteristics are connected to life complete satisfaction no matter age.
Recent research study released by the American Psychological Association discovered that particular personality type are connected to life complete satisfaction and stay steady no matter age or modifications in social functions and obligations throughout their adult years.
“Many studies have shown that people with certain personality profiles are more satisfied with their life than others. Yet, it had not been extensively studied whether this holds true across the lifespan. For example, extraverted – that is sociable, talkative – people might be particularly happy in young adulthood, when they typically are forming new social relationships,” stated research study co-author Gabriel Olaru,Ph D., an assistant teacher at TilburgUniversity “We thus wanted to examine if some personality traits are more or less relevant to life, social, and work satisfaction in specific life phases.”
The research study was released in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
To figure out how the relationship in between personality type and life complete satisfaction modifications in time, scientists evaluated information gathered from 2008 to 2019 by the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences (LISS) panel study, a nationally representative study of families in theNetherlands Over 11 years, 9,110 Dutch individuals varying from 16 to 95 years of ages at the time of the very first study addressed numerous surveys to evaluate their Big Five personality type– openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and psychological stability/neuroticism– and their complete satisfaction with their social connections and their life in general. Only the 5,928 individuals who were used at the time of the study likewise addressed concerns about their complete satisfaction with their work lives.
The scientists discovered that the majority of the relationships in between personality type and complete satisfaction stayed the very same throughout the adult life-span which psychological stability was the characteristic most highly related to individuals’s complete satisfaction with their life, social connections, and profession.
“Our findings show that – despite differences in life challenges and social roles – personality traits are relevant for our satisfaction with life, work, and social contacts across young, middle, and older adulthood,” stated Manon van Scheppingen,Ph D., an assistant teacher at Tilburg University and another co-author on the research study. “The personality traits remained equally relevant across the adult lifespan, or became even more interconnected in some cases for work satisfaction.”
The scientists likewise discovered that various personality type were connected to individuals’s complete satisfaction with their social lives and professions– most especially conscientiousness for work complete satisfaction, and extraversion and agreeableness for social complete satisfaction. People who saw boosts in these characteristics throughout time likewise reported boosts in their life, social and work complete satisfaction.
People’s complete satisfaction with their work was the most impacted by distinctions in age. As individuals in the research study aged, the relationship in between profession complete satisfaction and psychological stability grew reasonably more powerful.
Despite a weaker connection in between openness and life complete satisfaction in general, the scientists discovered that individuals who increased in openness likewise increased in life complete satisfaction throughout the 11 years determined by the LISS study. This relationship might be described by indirect procedures, according to the scientists.
“Emotional stability likely shows a strong link with global and domain-specific satisfaction because this trait colors people’s general view of the world,” Olaru stated.
“A good example of how personality interacts with the environment can be found in the work context. One of our findings was that the link between emotional stability and work satisfaction increases across ages. This might be explained by the fact that emotionally stable people are less scared to quit unsatisfactory jobs and more likely to apply for jobs that are more challenging and perhaps more fulfilling and enjoyable in the long run,” van Scheppingen included.
Future research studies must take a look at how variables that alter with age, such as earnings, work status, marital status, and health, impact the relationship in between personality type and general complete satisfaction with life, according to the scientists.
“While we did not analyze what triggered these modifications, [the research] reveals that our characters and our joy are not set in stone,” van Scheppingen stated. “Perhaps we may even be able to influence how we change: If we try to become more organized, outgoing, friendly, this might increase life, social or work satisfaction as well.”
Reference: “The Link Between Personality, Global, and Domain-Specific Satisfaction Across the Adult Lifespan” by Gabriel Olaru, Manon A. van Scheppingen, Wiebke Bleidorn and Jaap J. A. Denissen, 2023, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DOI: 10.1037/ pspp0000461
