In this current study the Authors explain the relationships between personality and SWB and contributes to reduce the doubt in this monarchy. Results confirm that the understanding of relations between personality and subjective well-being implies the need of questions at a detailed level of personality and SWB, since that could help us understand how personality traits are related to each specific SWB component. Our findings suggest that characteristics, within the same personality domain, predict differentially each of the three SWB components (neuroticism, …show more content…
M., Pulido–Martos, M., & Lopez–Zafra, E. (2010). Does perceived emotional intelligence and optimism/pessimism predict psychological well–being? Journal of Happiness Studies, 12(3), 463–474. doi:10.1007/s10902–010–9209–7.
The purpose of the present study was to examine the possible role of optimism and pessimism as possible predictors of the psychological well-being dimensions. The relationship between optimism and wellbeing was partially mediated by meaning in life. While numerous studies have found that optimism is a major predictor of well-being. The study findings suggest that a focus on meaning in life may be a dynamic opportunity to enhance subjective well-being in later life while stable internal resources, such as optimism and pessimism influence their subjective well-being.
Azar, B. (2011). Positive psychology advances, with growing pains. Monitor on Psychology, 42(4), 32–36.
This article discusses how positive psychology is moving ahead fast and is finding its way into therapy, schools, businesses, and even the Military. The article speaks on how some might feel that this branch of psychology is moving too fast. The article concludes with the future of the field of positive psychology hangs in the balance of what the research …show more content…
The study looked at the parents’ relationship as well as the mother, father, and child relationships, and the step parent, child relationship in a remarried family, to help find a greater connection. The study argued that a father might distance himself from the family while a mother might transfer her marital affection more toward the mother-child relationship (or sometimes vice versa). The study looked into how parenting behaviors might also affect the possibility of divorce, which was interconnected to the father and mother-child relationships, Schindler and Conley found “greater mother-youth closeness, lower father youth closeness, lower mother positive marital behaviors and at a trend level, lower father positive marital behaviors each predicted a higher likelihood of marital separation” also pointing out that for each year a couple is married that the likelihood of separation goes down