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#736 Todd Kashdan: The Psychology of Well-Being

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Are There Any Personality Traits That Correlate More With Well-Being?

Openness to experience has a very small positive correlation with well-being dimensions, things like meaning of purpose in life. Conscientiousness rebranded as grit by Angela Duckworth and others is highly linked also with a sense of positive emotions,. People that are more extroverted tend to extract more positive experiences when they're in social scenarios. neuroticism or having emotional instability in your life is inversely related to well-being - it's because you were pulled and pushed by the environment.

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