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  Psychological ScienceVolume 19 Issue 3, Pages 205 - 210 Published Online: 3 Mar 2008 © 2009 Association for Psychological Science
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 152K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Research Report Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing: The Genetics of Personality and Well-Being in a Representative Sample Copyright © 2008 Association for Psychological Science ABSTRACTABSTRACT—Subjective well-being is known to be related to personality traits. However, to date, nobody has examined whether personality and subjective well-being share a common genetic structure. We used a representative sample of 973 twin pairs to test the hypothesis that heritable differences in subjective well-being are entirely accounted for by the genetic architecture of the Five-Factor Model's personality domains. Results supported this model. Subjective well-being was accounted for by unique genetic influences from Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness, and by a common genetic factor that influenced all five personality domains in the directions of low Neuroticism and high Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. These findings indicate that subjective well-being is linked to personality by common genes and that personality may form an "affective reserve" relevant to set-point maintenance and changes in set point over time. (Received 5/7/07; Revision accepted 9/14/07) | 
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