Do Causal Attributions Mediate the Relationship between Personality Characteristics and Life Satisfaction in Adolescence?

Autor/inn/en	Rigby, Ben T.; Huebner, E. Scott
Titel	Do Causal Attributions Mediate the Relationship between Personality Characteristics and Life Satisfaction in Adolescence?
Quelle	In: Psychology in the Schools, 42 (2005) 1, S.91-99 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-3085
DOI	10.1002/pits.20026
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Adolescents; Health Promotion; Attribution Theory; Life Satisfaction; High School Students; Emotional Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Lebensvollendung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Gefühlsbildung
Abstract	This study examined relationships among personality traits, causal attributions, and global life satisfaction in a sample of 212 high school students. A chief aim of this research was to explore whether causal attributions mediate the relationship between personality characteristics and global life satisfaction as hypothesized by DeNeve and Cooper (1998). Specifically, a mediational model was proposed whereby extraversion and emotional stability relate to causal attributions, which in turn relate to life satisfaction. The results of this research revealed that the personality characteristic of emotional stability, but not extraversion, was related significantly to adolescent life satisfaction. Moreover, this study indicated that adolescents' causal attributions for good events mediated the relationship between life satisfaction and emotional stability. These findings should enhance understanding of potential pathways to the development of increased life satisfaction in adolescents as well as inform adolescent health promotion efforts. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10