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Happiness and social skills

1990; Elsevier BV; Volume: 11; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0191-8869(90)90152-h

1873-3549

Michael Argyle, Luo Lu,

Optimism, Hope, and Well-being

Sixty-three adult subjects were given measures of happiness, extraversion, neuroticism, social competence, and cooperativeness at time 1, and happiness 4 months later. It was found that assertiveness correlated with happiness, and predicted it in longitudinal regression analyses. Extraversion and neuroticism correlated with happiness (and neuroticism predicted it) but this could mostly be explained by the mediating effect of assertiveness. Cooperation failed to correlate, and self-consciousness scales correlated with but failed to predict happiness.