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Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight
Discrepancies in views of the Self are suggested to be negatively related to well-being (Higgins, 1987). In the present study, we used a novel concept, Personality Estimation Discrepancy (PED), to test this classic idea. PED is defined as the computed difference between how one view oneself (Self-Pe...
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author | Nilsson, August Håkan Friedrichs, Kira Kajonius, Petri |
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description | Discrepancies in views of the Self are suggested to be negatively related to well-being (Higgins, 1987). In the present study, we used a novel concept, Personality Estimation Discrepancy (PED), to test this classic idea. PED is defined as the computed difference between how one view oneself (Self-Perceived Personality) and a standard Big Five test (IPIP-NEO-30). In a pre-registered (osf.io) UK online study (N = 297; M(age) = 37, SD = 14) we analyzed: (1) whether PED would predict Subjective Well-Being (SWB; Harmony in Life, Satisfaction with Life, Positive affect, Negative Affect) and Self-Insight, and (2) whether Self-Insight would mediate the relationship between PED and SWB. The results showed that underestimation of Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability indeed is associated with both high SWB and high Self-Insight. However, these effects mostly disappeared when controlling for the Big Five test scores. Furthermore, Self-Insight largely (42.9%) mediated the relationship between the mis-estimation and SWB. We interpret these finding such that the relationship of mis-estimating one’s personality with SWB and Self-Insight are mostly explained by the Big Five factors, yet the discrepancy is a dependent feature of scoring particularly high or low on certain personality traits. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-022-03396-1. |
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spelling | pubmed-93619992022-08-10 Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight Nilsson, August Håkan Friedrichs, Kira Kajonius, Petri Curr Psychol Article Discrepancies in views of the Self are suggested to be negatively related to well-being (Higgins, 1987). In the present study, we used a novel concept, Personality Estimation Discrepancy (PED), to test this classic idea. PED is defined as the computed difference between how one view oneself (Self-Perceived Personality) and a standard Big Five test (IPIP-NEO-30). In a pre-registered (osf.io) UK online study (N = 297; M(age) = 37, SD = 14) we analyzed: (1) whether PED would predict Subjective Well-Being (SWB; Harmony in Life, Satisfaction with Life, Positive affect, Negative Affect) and Self-Insight, and (2) whether Self-Insight would mediate the relationship between PED and SWB. The results showed that underestimation of Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability indeed is associated with both high SWB and high Self-Insight. However, these effects mostly disappeared when controlling for the Big Five test scores. Furthermore, Self-Insight largely (42.9%) mediated the relationship between the mis-estimation and SWB. We interpret these finding such that the relationship of mis-estimating one’s personality with SWB and Self-Insight are mostly explained by the Big Five factors, yet the discrepancy is a dependent feature of scoring particularly high or low on certain personality traits. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-022-03396-1. Springer US 2022-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9361999/ /pubmed/35967501 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03396-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Nilsson, August Håkan Friedrichs, Kira Kajonius, Petri Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight |
title | Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight |
title_full | Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight |
title_fullStr | Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight |
title_full_unstemmed | Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight |
title_short | Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight |
title_sort | know thyself! predicting subjective well-being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9361999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35967501 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03396-1 |
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