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Parker, Philip D.; Martin, Andrew J.; Marsh, Herbert W. – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2008
Life satisfaction is an important component of psychological health and wellbeing. Although personality is consistently linked to life satisfaction, its "innate" and stable nature can make it a difficult target for intervention by practitioners. More malleable and context-specific factors such as multidimensional self-concept may prove…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Self Concept, Self Concept Measures
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Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
Examines to what extent peer relations, self-confidence, and school performance correlate with self-rated happiness and loneliness in adolescents. Personality traits, self-confidence, friendship, and school grades were all significantly oppositely correlated with happiness and loneliness. Regressional analysis revealed that extraversion and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Extraversion Introversion, Friendship