A Study on the Subjective Well being of Couples
-- Couple's happiness mainly depends on the husband's personality
National Psychologist Wu Jian
two thousand and fourteen year ten month twenty-eight day
The development of positive psychology makes people pay more attention to their positive mental state and emotional experience while facing more pressure and anxiety, thus promoting the study of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being SWB It refers to an individual's overall assessment of his/her quality of life according to his/her own standards. It is a comprehensive psychological indicator to measure his/her quality of life, reflecting the social function and adaptability of the subject. Subjective well-being is divided into cognitive aspects, which refers to a cognitive assessment of people's speaking status for a long time or most of the time. Emotional aspects can be divided into positive and negative emotions, which measure people's subjective emotional experience in a certain period of time. Subjective well-being can be regarded as a psychological construction with both characteristics and status, which is characterized by subjectivity, integrity and relative stability. Personality is the most stable and powerful predictor of subjective well-being. Positive emotion is positively related to extrovert and pleasant. Life satisfaction has the strongest positive correlation with conscientiousness, while subjective well-being has no obvious correlation with openness.
Instrument Use Positive Emotion Negative Emotion Experience Scale PSNAS , Life satisfaction scale swls , Concise Big Five Personality Scale, extroverted, pleasant, conscientious, neurotic, and open.
The results showed that there was no significant gender difference in the subjective well-being of couples. Big Five personality five Factors are related to subjective well-being, neuroticism is negatively related to life satisfaction and positive emotions, and positively related to negative emotions. Male extraversion is positively related to life satisfaction and positive emotions, while female extraversion is not related to life satisfaction. These are the main and stable predictors of positive emotions and life satisfaction, which are partially consistent with the extraversion type, and can improve subjective well-being.
The husband's conscientiousness and neuroticism can predict the wife's life satisfaction, and openness can predict the wife's subjective well-being. However, the wife's personality trait mainly has an extraversion effect on the husband's negative feelings and subjective well-being. Because the gender psychological differences between husband and wife can bring about individual differences and their roles in the family, the different tasks may lead to different characteristics of the same personality traits of both husband and wife in subjective well-being. It shows that if the husband shows the characteristics of being careful and conscientious, the wife will feel more satisfied with her life. However, the husband's mood is unstable, and his response to various stimuli is too strong. If he is nervous and irritable, his wife may have low life satisfaction. The husband's emotional, intelligent and creative characteristics make his wife feel more subjective happiness. The wife's love of communication and entertainment, enthusiasm and optimism can make her husband feel more happy. In comparison, women's subjective well-being is more easily affected by their spouse's personality than men's. Those who believe that the influence on marital satisfaction is mainly the result of the man's character.
The personality traits of spouses have an important role in predicting their own subjective well-being, and have a partial role in predicting their spouses' subjective well-being, The wife is warm and cheerful, the husband feels happier, the husband is emotional and intelligent, the wife feels happier 。
