Psychology of Well-Being

Theory, Research and Practice

Table 4 Showing the correlation between age, gender, self-reported personality and the corresponding values related to the semantic representation of the description of life events

From: Agentic, communal, and spiritual traits are related to the semantic representation of written narratives of positive and negative life events

	Semantic representation
	r	p
Demographics
Gender	0.192	0.053
Age	0.110	0.181
Big Five
Openness	0.091	0.240
Conscientiousness	−0.029	0.591
Extraversion	0.054	0.337
Agreeableness	−0.161	0.896
Neuroticism	0.028	0.415
Temperament and character
Novelty seeking	0.011	0.466
Harm avoidance	0.040	0.371
Reward dependence	−0.103	0.801
Persistence	0.022	0.429
Self-directedness	0.311	0.005
Cooperativeness	0.339	0.002
Self-transcendence	0.015	0.451

Significant correlations are printed in italics

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