Temperament and Personal Wellbeing in a Sample of

Authors: F Viñas M González S Malo Y García F Casas

Publish Date: 2013/05/15

Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 355-366

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Abstract

Working on the basis that temperament – understood as the root from which personality traits emerge – is related to subjective wellbeing a study was conducted on a sample of 1483 students in compulsory secondary education aged between 12 and 16 half of whom attended schools in a rural or semiurban area and half in an urban setting The aims of the study were as follows a to determine the level of personal wellbeing in a sample of 12 to 16 yearold adolescents measured using scores obtained from the Personal Wellbeing Index PWI and b to analyse the relationship between temperament measured using the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire EATQR and personal wellbeing Results indicate among other things that those temperament dimensions which best predict a high level of personal wellbeing are activity level affiliation shyness with a negative weight inhibitory control and activation control

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