Optimizing well-being: The empirical encounter of two traditions.

• DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.1007
• Publication Date: 2005-10-07T19:17:20Z
• Authors: Corey L. M. Keyes; Dov Shmotkin; Carol D. Ryff
• Keywords: Conscientiousness; Openness to experience; Subjective Well-Being; Well-Being

Subjective well-being (SWB) is evaluation of life in terms satisfaction and balance between positive negative affect; psychological (PWB) entails perception engagement with existential challenges life. The authors hypothesized that these research streams are conceptually related but empirically distinct combinations them relate differentially to sociodemographics personality. Data from a national sample 3,032 Americans aged 25-74. Factor analyses confirmed the related-but-distinct status SWB PWB. probability optimal (high PWB) increased as age, education, extraversion, conscientiousness neuroticism decreased. Compared adults higher than PWB were younger, had more showed openness experience.