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Fadda, Daniela, L. Francesca Scalas, M. Paz Quevedo-Aguado, y María H. Benavente Cuesta. «The influence of personality factors on well-being through self-esteem: An Italian-Spanish lexical comparative study». Personality and Individual Differences 175 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PAID.2021.110663.
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Considering the psycholexical approach, this study aimed to test the structure of the Big-five model of personality
in Italy and Spain using exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM) and to use predictive latent models to
investigate whether these traits influence hedonic and eudaimonic well-being directly and indirectly, as medi-
ated by self-esteem. ESEM analyses conducted with Italian and Spanish samples, including 400 (Mage = 21.49,
SD = 2.35; 81.5%female) and 602 (Mage = 20.52, SD = 1.93; 81%female) university students, respectively, found
that a three-factor solution (Agreeableness, Extraversion, Conscientiousness) showed better model fit and more
well-defined factors than either a four- (adding Emotional-stability) or five-factor (adding Integrity) solution.
Predictive models using the three-factor solution showed that, in both samples, Extraversion indirectly affected
hedonic well-being, global eudaimonic well-being, and Effortful-Engagement; Conscientiousness directly and
indirectly affected hedonic well-being, but affected eudaimonic well-being (directly and indirectly) only in the
Italian sample. The main difference between samples in relation to Agreeableness was that, in the Italian sample,
this trait did not affect self-esteem, but directly promoted hedonic well-being. Thus, a psycholexical three-factor
solution appeared more stable across languages; moreover, the results provided initial evidence on the gen-
eralisability across samples of the effects of personality traits on well-being, both directly and as mediated by self-
esteem.
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