%0 Journal Article
%T Personality Traits and Dispositions Predicting Flourishing, Satisfaction with Life, Psychological Well-Being, Positive and Negative Affect, and Happiness
%A Margarita Bakracheva
%J Psychology
%P 393-425
%@ 2152-7199
%D 2025
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/psych.2025.164023
%X The description of personality predictors of well-being has been studied extensively. The purpose of this study is to outline the direct and indirect effects of personality traits and dispositions on perceived well-being—flourishing, life satisfaction, happiness, positive and negative affect, and psychological well-being. Results from a convenient sample of 455 respondents are used to outline the various models of the predictors of perceived well-being. Personality traits, and to a greater extent personality disposition, predict perceived well-being. Direct and indirect predictors of flourishing, subjective well-being (satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect), psychological well-being, and happiness are highlighted, accounting for the moderating effects of the personality traits extraversion, awareness, neuroticism, and agreeableness, and the meta-traits stability and plasticity, and the mediating effects of mindfulness, proactive and problem-focused coping, self-esteem, learned helplessness, and rumination are accounted for. Results suggest that stability and plasticity not only as meta-traits but also as pathways of adaptive behaviors that promote perceived well-being, play specific role in the course of self-regulation. It is suggested that perceived well-being is not only an outcome but also a part of the process of effective self-regulation, as it determines perceptions of the environment and behavioral patterns and attitudes that, in the long run, may facilitate or inhibit personality dispositions and traits.
%K Well-Being
%K Flourishing
%K Personality Traits
%K Coping
%K Mindfulness
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=141834