Circumstances influence happiness as much as personality, find study
Well-being associations for multiple-choice measures of life satisfaction and day-to-day affect versus a writing-based measure of “thriving.” Correlation for personality traits represents adjusted multiple R (estimates are adjusted downward to account for the inclusion of more variables than comparisons). Error margins are bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals. N = 1,044. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212867120
