What is it about?
The paper presents relationships between Subjective Well-Being (Life satisfaction, Positive Affect and Negative Affect) and temperament traits considered in the Regulative Theory of Temperament and responsible for energetic (Emotional Reactivity, Endurance, Activity) and temporal (Briskness, Perseveration) regulation. Results have shown that temperament traits more strongly predicted affective components than satisfaction. Each well-being dimension had a unique set of predictors and these sets for affective SWB dimensions are dependent on the period of development.
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Why is it important?
Relationships between temperament traits (responsible for energetic and temporal regulation) and SWB components are more complex than could be expected from previous research on temperament-SWB (focusing on negative aspects of SWB) and personality-SWB relations (focusing mostly on the role of Neuroticism and Extraversion and neglecting the specific role of Endurance, Briskness and Perseveration). The temperamental mechanisms for affective dimensions are not universal - they depend on age group. The differences in predictions are most pronounced for the Positive Affect, suggesting that positive emotions may be facilitated or hampered by unique characteristics and conditions.
Perspectives
In this publications there are several findings that can inspire further research: 1) each SWB dimension had specific set of predictors, what suggests that specific functions of Temperament traits should be examined, though there are moderate (even high) links between them causing tendency to reduce their number; 2) For affective SWB dimensions the role of Endurance, Activity and Perseveration is dependent on age group - that suggests that the role of temperament traits can be not universal and we need more research considering it in various periods of life; 3) Affective SWB dimensions are predicted also by traits responsible for temporal regulation, what suggests that intensity of affects can be explained by a duration of reactions (tendency to shift or maintain reactions); 4) Perseveration in the context other traits positively predicted Positive Affect or Negative Affect, what means that its beneficial or adverse function is linked with setup of other traits and its suggests that we also need research on interactions of temperament traits or various configurations (types) of temperament traits.
Prof. Anna M. Zalewska
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
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This page is a summary of: Temperamental predictors of subjective well-being from early adolescence to mid-life: The role of temporal and energetic regulation, International Journal of Psychology, February 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12414.
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