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Predicting General Well‐Being From Emotional Intelligence and Three Broad Personality Traits
Author(s) -
Singh Malika,
Woods Stephen A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00320.x
Subject(s) - psychology , conscientiousness , trait , neuroticism , big five personality traits , personality , extraversion and introversion , emotional intelligence , social psychology , big five personality traits and culture , hierarchical structure of the big five , developmental psychology , computer science , programming language
This paper examined the joint predictive effects of trait emotional intelligence (trait‐EI), Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism on 2 facets of general well‐being and job satisfaction. An employed community sample of 123 individuals from the Indian subcontinent participated in the study, and completed measures of the five‐factor model of personality, trait‐EI, job satisfaction, and general well‐being facets worn‐out and up‐tight . Trait‐EI was related but distinct from the 3 personality variables. Trait‐EI demonstrated the strongest correlation with job satisfaction, but predicted general well‐being no better than Neuroticism. In regression analyses, trait‐EI predicted between 6% and 9% additional variance in the well‐being criteria, beyond the 3 personality traits. It was concluded that trait‐EI may be useful in examining dispositional influences on psychological well‐being.