Happiness and social skills
Journal
Personality and Individual Differences
Journal Volume
11
Journal Issue
12
Pages
1255-1261
Date Issued
1990
Author(s)
Argyle M.
Abstract
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. © 1990.
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Type
journal article