Citation

Kirkcaldy B, Furnham A. Studia Psychologica 2000; 42(1-2): 97-104.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000)

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Abstract

In a study involving 37 nations, four data bases were combined to include national difference measures of subjective well-being (data from Diener et al., 1995), the personality variables of extraversion and neuroticism (Barrett, Eysenck, 1984), positive and negative affect (Macintosh, 1998), and Eurostat and UN statistics concerning incidence rates of accidents, deaths due to suicides and other self-inflicted injuries, and deaths incurred by car accidents. Negative affect was unrelated to any of the "outcome" variables. Subjective well-being on the other hand was significantly negatively correlated with incidence of accidents as well as deaths incurred through driving accidents. Positive affect, itself significantly positively correlated with subjective well-being, showed a significant negative correlation with "car-driving deaths". Moreover, trait neuroticism was associated with a high prevalence of accidents and car-deaths.

Language: en

Keywords

Accident rates; Cross-cultural; Positive affect; Psychological well-being; Social epidemiology; Suicide; Traffic deaths