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Character as a predictor of life satisfaction in Czech adolescent sample: 3
-Year follow-up study
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| Original title: | Character as a predictor of life satisfaction in Czech adolescent sample: 3-Year follow-up study |
| Author: | Michaela Porubanová |
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| Citation: | PORUBANOVÁ, Michaela. Character as a predictor of life
satisfaction in Czech adolescent sample: 3-Year follow-up study
(Character as a predictor of life satisfaction in Czech
adolescent sample: 3-Year follow-up study). Personality and
Individual Differences, GB: Oxford Pergamon Press, 2012, vol.
53, No 3, p. 231-235. ISSN 0191-8869.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.03.022.Export BibTeX @article{983327, author = {Porubanová, Michaela}, article_location = {GB}, article_number = {3}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.03.022}, keywords = {Life satisfaction Cloninger’s model of temperament and character TCI Adolescence}, language = {eng}, issn = {0191 -8869},journal = {Personality and Individual Differences}, title = {Character as a predictor of life satisfaction in Czech adolescent sample: 3 -Year follow-up study},url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886912001390}, volume = {53}, year = {2012} } |
| Original language: | English |
| Field: | Psychology |
| WWW: |  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886912001390 |
| Type: | Article in Periodical |
| Keywords: | Life satisfaction Cloninger’s model of temperament and character TCI Adolescence |
The study examined personality predictors (based on Cloninger’s psychobiological model of temperament and character – TCI) of life satisfaction in a sample of 15-year-old Czech adolescents (N = 173) and subsequently 3 years after. The focus of the study was to determine the personality dimensions that predict life satisfaction and how those change over 3 years of adolescence. Of all dimensions, significant differences between the two age groups were found only in the character dimensions Self-Directedness and Self-Transcendence. Using stepwise regression analysis, the character scale Self-Directedness alone accounted for 15% of the variance in life satisfaction among 15-year-old adolescents, whereas in the 18-year-old group, 30% of the variance in life satisfaction was explained by the character dimension Self-Directedness and the temperament dimensions Harm Avoidance and Reward Dependence. In both age groups, only Self-Directedness seems to make a unique contribution towards explaining life satisfaction. The results demonstrate that character changes might also account for a great amount of variance in life satisfaction.
