Abstract:

The results showed: (1) Neuroticism is positively related to negative affect, but negatively correlated with positive affect, self-esteem and life satisfaction. (2) Positive and negative affect were the full mediators between neuroticism and self-esteem. Self-esteem was the full mediator between positive and negative affect and life satisfaction. (3) Neuroticism couldn’t affect life satisfaction directly, only indirectly affected life satisfaction through two mediation chains. One was the positive affect-self-esteem mediation chain, the other was the negative affect-self-esteem mediation chain. Both absolute and incremental fit indices indicated that this chain type mediation model had a good fit to data. And, all latent variable variances and factor loadings were highly significant. These findings highlight the complex nature of association between neuroticism and life satisfaction. Neuroticism indirectly affects life satisfaction through the positive affect-self-esteem mediation chain and the negative affect-self-esteem mediation chain, but can’t directly affect life satisfaction. This study provides new and further evidence that neuroticism is associated with a number of negative life outcomes, including less happy, more aversive mood, poor self-esteem, low levels of life satisfaction.

摘要：

摘 要 采用问卷法以344名大学生为被试探讨了神经质、积极情绪、消极情绪、自尊和生活满意度之间的关系。结果发现：(1)相关分析显示，神经质与消极情绪显著正相关，与积极情绪、自尊和生活满意度显著负相关。(2)结构方程模型分析表明，神经质不能直接影响个体的生活满意度，只能通过积极情绪-自尊中介链和消极情绪-自尊中介链对生活满意度产生间接效应。这些结果说明神经质预示着个体较多的消极情绪体验、较少的积极情绪体验、较低的自尊水平和较低的生活满意度。