A Study Of The Association Of Subjective Well-being And Extroversion Personality By Implicit Method

Subjective well-being (SWB) is people's own evaluations of their lives. These evaluations can be either cognitive or affective. Cognitive evaluation is usually referred to as life satisfaction, which is defined as the global judgments of one's life. Emotions, including positive affect and negative affect. The positive affect involves pleasant experiences such as affiliation, excitement, and satisfaction, whereas the negative affect involves unpleasant affective experiences such as sadness, anger and anxiety.The research history about the relationship between subjective well-being and personality is short. In the research on SWB, most researchers using the traditional method of self-report and in fact they study the relationship between explicit SWB and personality. Self-report method has some shortcomings, such as the subjects may not answer the questions according to the real situation.Implicit Association Test is a new measurement technique, can make up for lack of self-report method. This study used self-report method and the implicit measurement techniques to study the correlation among personality extraversion, explicit subjective well-being and implicit subjective well-being to verified and rich the study of relationship between and personalityThis is the results:(1) In implicit SWB experiments, IAT effects is significant, subjects tend to be associated with self and positive words, and will associated with other people and negative words.(2) Extraversion was positively related to explicit SWB. The study results validate the previous studies.(3) There is no correlation between extraversion and implicit subjective well-being.(4) There is no correlation between Implicit and explicit SWB.