Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Bennett, Emily and Furnham, Adrian. 2007. The happy personality: Mediational role of trait emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(8), pp. 1633-1639. ISSN 0191-8869 [Article]

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This study examined the relationship between the Big Five personality traits (Gosling et al., 2003), trait emotional intelligence (EI) (Petrides & Furnham, 2001) and happiness (Argyle et al., 1989) in a sample of 112 (61 female) student and non-student participants. Strong dispositional determinants of happiness were identified. In line with previous findings, four of the Big Five, namely stability, extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness, were positively correlated with both happiness and trait EI, which explained 18% of unique variance (over and above age and the Big Five) in happiness. Furthermore, a significant amount of shared variance between happiness and the Big Five was explained by trait EI, which partly mediated the paths from stability and conscientiousness to happiness, and fully mediated the link between agreeableness and happiness. Limitations and implications are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.10.029
Keywords:	Happiness, Trait emotional intelligence, Big Five, Personality
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event June 2007 Published
Item ID:	5024
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2011 14:03
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2021 11:00
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/5024

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