Personality traits and subjective well-being with regard to problem of infertility

The mediating role of implicit self-theories and life-engagement

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ID19346702
AuthorsElwira Brygoła (0000-0002-6326-7760, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-06-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolish Psychological Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0079-2993 • E-ISSN: 1641-7844
PublisherPolish Academy of Sciences Chancellery (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.24425/119481
OpenAlexW4384705060
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

In integrated approaches to personality (McAdams & Pals, 2006; McCrae & Costa, 1999), it is possible to examine relationships between personality traits, beliefs as characteristic adaptations, and subjective well-being. This research aimed to verify if implicit self-theories (belief about stability of human nature) proposed by Dweck (2000) and life-engagement proposed by Scheier et al. (2006) play a mediating role in relationships between personality traits and satisfaction with life. The relationships were examined with respect to infertility problem. A sample of 120 adults (aged 26–48; M = 36.60; SD = 4.82; 50% women) participated in the research. The mediation hypotheses were examined, and furthermore, four groups of couples were compared in terms of measured variables. The groups were: couples with (1) cured and (2) uncured infertility and couples who were not infertile and (3) have and (4) do not have children. Life-engagement mediated the relationship between Conscientiousness and satisfaction with life in the whole sample. The belief about stability of human nature mediated relationships between subjective well-being and Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Extraversion only among couples with an infertility problem

Big Five personality traits · Developmental psychology · Infertility · Personality · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology

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