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Humility positively correlates with personality traits, happiness, and self-efficacy in students. For adults, humility is linked to personality, reduced anxiety, and better well-being, suggesting its broad psychological benefits.

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  • Psychology
  • Positive Psychology
  • Personality Psychology

Background:

  • Humility is a growing area of interest in positive psychology.
  • Existing research explores humility's correlates, but its relationship with specific psychological variables requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the relationship between humility and personality dimensions, mental health (anxiety, depression), subjective well-being (happiness, love of life), and self-efficacy.
  • To investigate these relationships in two distinct samples: college students and adult online workers.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Dual Dimension Humility Scale, which differentiates humility from honesty.
  • Collected data from 399 college students and 509 adult Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers.

Main Results:

  • For students, humility correlated with higher conscientiousness and openness, lower agreeableness and neuroticism, reduced depression, increased happiness and love of life, and enhanced social self-efficacy.
  • For adults, humility correlated with personality dimensions, lower anxiety, and certain aspects of psychological well-being.
  • Unique findings include the link between humility, love of life, and self-efficacy in students, and humility and well-being in adults.

Conclusions:

  • Humility demonstrates significant positive associations with various psychological constructs across different demographics.
  • Findings highlight the importance of humility for mental health, personality, and overall well-being.
  • Suggests potential applications for interventions aimed at cultivating humility to improve psychological outcomes.