It can be difficult to feel satisfied with your life when you’re facing challenges, but it’s not impossible.
René Mõttus, editor of the European Journal of Personality, found that whether a person is generally satisfied has more to do with their personality than their experiences.
People who have higher salaries, better social adaptability, and satisfactory health are “more likely to do well in life than those who earn less, lack strong relationships, or are in poor health.” Slightly higher levels of satisfaction,” Motus said in an article for Psychology Today.
“But it’s important to recognize that these factors are much weaker than many people think,” Motus says.
In fact, there are some personality traits that more accurately predict a person’s life satisfaction.
Four characteristics of highly satisfied people
People with high life satisfaction tend to:
emotionally stable conscientious extrovert cooperative
Researchers conducted a meta-analysis in 2020 to determine whether there is a relationship between the Big 5 personality traits and life satisfaction, and found that the above traits were closely associated with increased life satisfaction. It turned out that
This year, Mottas and other researchers found that when a person’s personality traits are defined by how they express themselves and how those close to them express themselves, results change. I decided to test whether or not.
“In addition to the Big Five traits of emotional stability, extraversion, and conscientiousness, satisfied people also feel understood, excited, and decisive; , people who are dissatisfied tend to feel envious, bored, used, incompetent, and unrewarded,” Motus writes.
These findings show that our life circumstances don’t have to define life satisfaction.
It’s possible to embrace other personality traits that increase your emotional stability, make you more conscious of your choices, and increase your life satisfaction.
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