Jeromy Anglim
Associate Professor of Psychology, Deakin University
Lead author of the 2020 meta-analysis of 334,567 people across 462 studies mapping which personality traits travel with well-being.
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The published work
Jeromy Anglim is an organisational and personality psychologist at Deakin University in Melbourne, known for rigorous quantitative work on personality, well-being and assessment.
His 2020 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin is the largest synthesis of how personality relates to both subjective and psychological well-being, covering the Big Five and HEXACO models.
How The Three Lives uses this work
The personality layer (Big Five plus HEXACO Honesty-Humility).
Relevant papers
Anglim, J., Horwood, S., Smillie, L. D., Marrero, R. J., & Wood, J. K. (2020)
Predicting psychological and subjective well-being from personality: A meta-analysis ↗Psychological Bulletin, 146(4), 279–323
Which traits relate to well-being, and how strongly — the backbone of the personality layer.