The Pattern of Stable Personality in Predicting the Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital
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2015
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TURKISH PSYCHOLOGISTS ASSOC
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
The concept of subjective well-being that is considered to be counterpart of the "happiness" in the psychological science is one of the indicators of how individuals think and sense their lifetime. The main purpose of this study is to explore the effects of the big five personality in the light of the genetic or personality theories and psychological capital with regards to the process or activity theories on the subjective well-being, and to seek for the mediating role of the psychological capital in this process. The data were collected at twelve-day intervals from 361 employees working in various positions in a courier company with using survey method. The survey battery comprised of Well-being Scale, Big Five Personality Scale and Psychological Capital Scale. The data were analyzed with using Amos v20.0 and SPSS v20.0 programs. The findings showed a significant positive relationship between extraversion, agreeableness, psychological capital and subjective well being, and a significant negative relationship between neuroticism and subjective well being. In addition to that psychological capital mediated the relationship between the extroversion and subjective well being. The results allowed researchers to make casual inferences about the relationship between stable personality characteristics and psychological attributes indicated as intraindividual distal and proximal context in the well being literature.
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Big five personality, subjective well-being, psychological capital, mediation
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TURK PSIKOLOJI DERGISI
WoS Q Değeri
Q4
Scopus Q Değeri
Q4
Cilt
30
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76
