Author(s)

Adrian Furnham¹, Charlotte Robinson²

¹Department of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Norwegian Business School (BI), Olso, Norway.
²Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK.

Background: This study was concerned with correlates of self-assessed health and wellness on ten dimensions including emotional, financial and physical health. All 10 self-ratings loaded on one factor with high internal reliability. Method: In all 506 adult participants, completed short measures of the bright side, Big Five traits (TIPI) and a short measure of the dark side, personality disorders (PID-5-BF). Results: Correlations and regressions suggested that wellness was related to sex, education and religious beliefs as well as four of five bright- and dark-side traits. Being Sanguine was most positively, and Choleric most negatively, associated with subjective wellness. Detachment and Negative Affect were the highest dark-side correlates. The final regression suggested that over a third of the variance in subjective wellness could be explained by four bright- and two dark-side factors. Conclusions: Personality factors, especially instability and negative affectivity, play a crucial role in all aspects of wellness. Implications and limitations are acknowledged.

Heath, Personality Disorders, Traits, Wellness, Demography, Ideology

Furnham, A. and Robinson, C. (2023) Correlates of Self-Assessed Wellness. Health, 15, 134-146. doi: 10.4236/health.2023.152011.