The Conceptual and Relational Structure of Subjective Well-Being, Neuroticism, and Extraversion: Once Again, Neuroticism Is the Important Predictor of Happiness

By Joar Vittersø, Fredrik Nilsen. 2002

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Subfields: Marketing, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Momentary Happiness: The Role of Psychological Need Satisfaction (2011, background): “circumstances (Schimmack et al. 2002; Vittersǿ and Nilsen 2002).”
• The influence of personality and life events on subjective well-being from a life span perspective (2009, background): “…between neuroticism, extraversion, and SWB (Chico-Libran, 2006; Headey & Wearing, 1992; Lucas & Fujita, 2000; Pavot, Diener, & Fujita, 1990; Vittersø & Nilsen, 2002; Watson & Clark, 1992), finding a robust negative relationship between neuroticism and SWB, and a robust positive…”
• What is the Strength of the Link Between Objective and Subjective Indicators of Urban Quality of Life? (2006, background): “and extroversion are hypothesised to not only influence overall QOL (e.g., DeNeve, 1999; Hayes & Joseph, 2003; Vitterso & Nilsen, 2002 ) but also flow down to effect our satisfaction judgement in specific life domains (e.g., Headey et al. 1991; Lance et al. 1989).”
• How Social Relations and Structures can Produce Happiness and Unhappiness: An International Comparative Analysis (2006, background): “…very poor countries of the Third World on the bottom; the same is true for the conspicuous high position of the Latin-American countries (Ingle-hart and Rabier, 1986; Veenhoven, 1993; Schyns, 1998; Diener, 2000; Myers, 2000; Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Vitterso et al., 2002; Christoph and Noll, 2003).”
• Subjective Wellbeing and Homeostatically Protected Mood: Theory Validation With Adolescents (2011, background): “This suggests that HPMood is the driving force behind SWB and not personality as is generally reported in the literature (e.g., DeNeve and Cooper 1998; Emmons and Diener (1985); Headey and Wearing 1989, 1992; Vitterso 2001; Vitterso and Nilsen 2002 ).”
• Positive and negative aspects of well-being: Common and specific predictors (2007, background): “Eid and Diener (2004), Hayes and Joseph (2003), and Vittersø and Nilsen (2002) found that neuroticism is far more important compared to other traits, as far as subjective well-being is concerned.”
• Subjective Wellbeing as an Affective-Cognitive Construct (2007, background): “This understanding allows a reinterpretation of earlier research showing the importance of neuroticism and extraversion in SWB (Vitterso 2001; Vitterso and Nilsen 2002 ).”