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Personality and attitude of the individual in early adulthood influence the subsequent well-being.

Catharine Gale, University of Southampton ( UK ), and colleagues examined data on 4,583 people members of the National Survey for Health and Development. All subjects were born in 1946 , they developed their own personality at age 16, and again at age 26. The extraversion was assessed by questions about: sociability, energy, orientation activities. Neurosis was assessed by questions about: emotional stability, mood, distractibility.

Decades later, when the participants had 60/64 years of age, 2,529 of them have answered a series of questions to measure the level of well-being and life satisfaction They also reported on their mental and physical health .


Their responses indicate that greater extraversion, developed at a young age, is directly associated with higher scores of well-being and life satisfaction. The presence of neurosis, on the contrary, provides lower levels of well-being: young people who have suffered from neurosis are more prone to develop, over the years , less psychological distress and physical health.



Research has shown that young people in the most expansive and emotionally stable, are happier in later years than their peers more introverted and less emotionally stable. The attitude and personality that characterize early adulthood have a lasting influence on the welfare of later decades.

Dr. Gale adds: "There is evidence that happy people tend to live longer: the levels of extraversion measured over 40 years before they were strongly predictive of well-being and life satisfaction later. The personality / attitude of young people seems to have a lasting influence on the happiness of the decades that follow. "



The study was published in the Journal of Research in Personality . 




Source: Worldhealth 


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