Study Yeh et al. (2015): study TW 2009

Public

Working age public, Taiwan, 2009

Survey name

TW-Social Change Survey 2009

Sample

Respondents

N = 1311

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Personality traits

Our Classification

Distribution

Extraversion: Mean = 5.62, SD = 0.93
Agreeableness: Mean = 5.61, SD = 0.84
Conscientiousness: Mean = 6.05, SD = 0.93
Emotional stability: Mean = 5.17, SD = 0.83
Openness: Mean = 6.08, SD = 0.92

Operationalization

Self-report on 2 questions for each item:
a: Extraversion ("I accomplish every day's workload even if I don't feel well", "I get things done in order to earn compliments")
b: Agreeableness ("I get along well with others", "I am not good at dealing with conflicts" reverse-coded)
c: Conscientiousness ("I am very confident in getting my plan completed", "No matter what kind of job I am doing, I can do it as well as the others")
d: Emotional stability ("I can always control things that occur to me", "I have nothing to be proud of" reverse-coded)
e: Openness ("Even if I dislike my work, I still do my best to finish it", "Even if a task takes a long time to achieve the outcome, I still keep up with it")
Each rated:
[ 4 ] stronly agree
[ 3 ] agree
[ 2 ] disagree
[ 1 ] strongly disagree

Observed Relation with Happiness