Are social support, loneliness, and social connection differentially associated with happiness across levels of introversion-extraversion?

ABSTRACT: This study examines whether extraversion moderates the association between subjective happiness and measures of social connectedness using data from Canadian residents, aged 16+, recruited online during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (21 April 2021-1 June 2021). To accomplish this aim we tested the moderating effect of extraversion scores on the association between Subjective Happiness scores and several social health measures: Perceived Social Support, Loneliness, social network size, and time with friends. Among 949 participants, results show that lower social loneliness (p < .001) and higher social support from friends (p = .001) and from family (p = .007) was more strongly correlated with subjective happiness for people with low extraversion compared to th

SUBMITTER: Card KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10328046 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature