People Who Have These ‘Big Five’ Personality Traits are Happier Throughout Their Lives

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New findings indicate that emotional stability was the most powerful predictor of overall satisfaction with life and career. Santi Nuñez/Stocksy

• A new study suggests that people who scored high on surveys measuring openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability tended to report greater overall work, social, and life satisfaction.
• Furthermore, the team noted that the link between these personality traits and life satisfaction was stable across the lifespan.
• These personality traits are known collectively as the Big Five.

People who are emotionally stable, conscientious, and agreeable may experience more satisfaction with their lives, according to new research.

The report, published Monday in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, evaluated how the Big Five personality traits — emotional stability, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness, and agreeableness — correlated to work, social, and life satisfaction across the adult lifespan.

Past researchTrusted Source has found that people with certain personality traits, like extroversion, are generally happier than others, however, until now it’s been unclear if this remains the case as people get older.

According to the findings, despite changes in living environments and experiences, the Big 5 personality traits continue to be strongly associated with life satisfaction across the lifespan.

“The personality traits remained equally relevant to life, social or work satisfaction across the adult lifespan, or became even more inter-connected in some cases for work satisfaction,” Manon van Scheppingen, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Tilburg University and one of the study’s co-authors, told Healthline.