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The relationship between personality and the experience of happiness and life satisfaction is one of the most extensively examined areas in the research on well-being. In the first part of the book, we mentioned a number of studies which presented evidence proving that the traits of extraversion, neuroticism and conscientiousness were repeatedly found as the strongest predictors of both subjective well-being and psychological well-being within the five-factor personality model.
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Blatný, M. (2015). Final Remarks. In: Blatný, M. (eds) Personality and Well-being Across the Life-Span. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137439963_10
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