Predicting wellbeing over one year using sociodemographic factors, personality, health behaviours, cognition, and life events.

ABSTRACT: Various sociodemographic, psychosocial, cognitive, and life event factors are associated with mental wellbeing; however, it remains unclear which measures best explain variance in wellbeing in the context of related variables. This study uses data from 1017 healthy adults from the TWIN-E study of wellbeing to evaluate the sociodemographic, psychosocial, cognitive, and life event predictors of wellbeing using cross-sectional and repeated measures multiple regression models over one year. Sociodemographic (age, sex, education), psychosocial (personality, health behaviours, and lifestyle), emotion and cognitive processing, and life event (recent positive and negative life events) variables were considered. The results showed that while neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, and cogniti

SUBMITTER: Chilver MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10076502 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature