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  • Well-being research

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  • Subjective well-being (SWB) is increasingly studied, encompassing individual happiness.
  • Life satisfaction is influenced by psychological traits and social factors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between individual character profiles and subjective well-being (SWB).
  • To identify specific character traits associated with higher life satisfaction.

Main Methods:

  • Analyzed data from 3522 university students.
  • Assessed character using the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised Short version (TCI-RS).
  • Measured life satisfaction with the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and used ANOVAs, t-tests, and regression analyses.

Main Results:

  • The creative profile showed the highest life satisfaction; the depressive profile showed the lowest.
  • High self-directedness, self-transcendence, and cooperativeness correlated with greater life satisfaction.
  • Self-directedness emerged as the strongest predictor of life satisfaction, explaining a significant portion of its variance.

Conclusions:

  • Self-directedness is a key character profile for enhancing life satisfaction.
  • Character profiles, particularly self-directedness, significantly predict subjective well-being in university students.