• Title of article

    The relationships between personality and well-being during societal change

  • Author/Authors

    Peter T. Van den Berg، نويسنده , , Horia Pitariu، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2005
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    229
  • To page
    234
  • Abstract
    This study investigates the relationships between the Big Five personality dimensions and well-being outcomes during the societal transition in Romania. The California Psychological Inventory, the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, and well-being measures were administered to 290 Romanian engineers. The Big Five personality dimensions were derived by means of factor analysis with the personality questionnaires. The results confirmed that job satisfaction was negatively related to neuroticism and was positively related to conscientiousness, and that depression and somatic complaints were negatively related to extraversion and were positively related to neuroticism. Unexpectedly, job satisfaction was positively related to openness to experience, and depression and somatic complaints were negatively related to openness to experience and were positively related to agreeableness. We concluded that most of the relationships between personality and well-being outcomes found in Western countries were confirmed in an East-European country and that differences in the relationships can be explained by cultural–societal factors.
  • Keywords
    Personality , Big Five , well-being , Societal change , stress , Romania , East Europe
  • Journal title
    Personality and Individual Differences
  • Serial Year
    2005
  • Journal title
    Personality and Individual Differences
  • Record number

    457727