NDLI: Temperament and Happiness in Children

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Author	Holder, Mark D. Klassen, Andrea
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	The relation between temperament and happiness was assessed in 311 children aged 9–12. Parents rated their children’s temperament using the Emotionality, Activity, and Sociability Temperament Survey (EAS) and rated their children’s happiness. Children rated their own temperament using the EAS and the Piers–Harris Self Concept Scale for Children Second Edition, and they rated their own happiness using a single-item measure, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire Short Form, and the Subjective Happiness Scale. Parents’ and children’s temperament ratings conformed to the four factor structure proposed by Buss and Plomin(Temperament: Early developing personality traits, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, 1984) supporting the use of children’s self-reports as an additional measure of temperament. Temperament accounted for between 9 and 29% of the variance in children’s happiness depending on the measures. Children who were more social and active, and less shy, emotional, and anxious were happier. These results parallel the well-established relation between happiness and personality in adults; temperament traits akin to extraversion (Sociability) were positively associated with happiness whereas traits akin to neuroticism (Emotionality) were negatively associated with happiness. Additionally, children who were rated higher in the temperament trait Activity were happier.
Starting Page	419
Ending Page	439
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13894978
Journal	Journal of Happiness Studies
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15737780
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-06-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Happiness Temperament Personality Children Well-being Philosophy Quality of Life Research Economics/Management Science Personality and Social Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences

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