Personality as predictor of mental health and happiness in the East and West
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Despite increasing interest in the psychology of happiness\ there have been few cross!cultural studies on personality correlates of happiness[ This study examines personality "EPQ# and demographic correlates of happiness and mental health in Britain\ China "Hong Kong# and Japan among comparable groups[ Com! pared to similar groups in China and Japan\ British participants reported higher levels of happiness\ mental health and extraversion[ However\ there were fewer than chance sex di}erences on the various measures[ Correlational analysis in all three countries showed extraversion to be a major correlate of happiness "r 9[49#\ while neuroticism was shown to be a correlate of mental health "r 9[54#[ Regressions performed separately for happiness and mental health showed a remarkably similar pattern across the three cultures\ with personality accounting for around 19) of the common variance[ Þ 0888 Elsevier Science Ltd[ All rights reserved[
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