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SUBMITTER: Yap SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3462459 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yap Stevie C Y SC Anusic Ivana I Lucas Richard E RE
Journal of research in personality 20120517 5
A nationally representative panel study of British households was used to examine the extent to which Big Five personality traits interact with the experience of major life events (marriage, childbirth, unemployment, and widowhood) to predict increases and decreases in life satisfaction following the event. Results show that major life events are associated with changes in life satisfaction, and some of these changes are very long lasting. Personality traits did not have consistent moderating ef ...[more]