PSYCHO-SOCIAL PREDICTORS OF HAPPINESS DISPOSITION IN THE GENDERS by Anita Sharma and Dalip Malhotra
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The present study examined the relationship between personality and social factors in happiness disposition among males and females. The sample comprised 500 Indian adolescents with equal number of males and females (n = 250 each) aged between 13 - 17 years from Himachal Pradesh. The results reveal the dominance of personality factors viz., emotional stability and extraversion contributing 19% of variance in happiness in females and personality hardiness and extraversion contributing 23% or variance in males followed by religiosity and social support contributing 6% of variance only in females’ sample. The results further reveal the commonness of extraversion trait in happiness in both the samples.
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