The Influence of Environment and Personality on the Affective and Cognitive Component of Subjective Well-being |
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| Authors: | Ulrich Schimmack Jürgen Schupp Gert G Wagner |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga (UTM), 3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, ON, Canada, L5L 1C6;(2) German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany;(3) Berlin University of Technology and German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Subjective well-being (SWB) has two components: affective well-being (AWB) and cognitive well-being (CWB). The present study
demonstrated that AWB and CWB have are influenced by different factors in a nationally representative sample in Germany (N = 1053).
Neuroticism was a stronger predictor of AWB than CWB. Unemployment and regional differences between the East and West of Germany
were stronger predictors of CWB than AWB. In addition, the study demonstrated that shared evaluative biases in personality
and SWB ratings inflate estimates of the effect size of personality. After controlling for this bias, the effects of environmental
factors (unemployment, regional differences) on CWB were stronger than the effects of personality (neuroticism). The results
demonstrate that AWB and CWB are distinct components of SWB and that research findings for one component may not generalize
to the other component. The results also raise important questions about the weighing of the two components in the creation
of subjective social indicators. |
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| Keywords: | Well-being Life satisfaction Affect Unemployment Personality Neuroticism |
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