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1 Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange Vol.4, No.2 June 30 (2018), pp Abstract The present study was intended to analyse discriminant factors between happy and unhappy elderly people. For this purpose, 300 seniors in a metropolitan area in Korea were individually interviewed regarding subjective well-being, economic and health state, extraversion, neuroticism, self-esteem, goal instability, generativity, and social support. The discriminant factors between high emotional well-being elderly and low emotional well-being elderly were self-esteem, neuroticism, and goal instability. The discriminat factors between high life satisfaction elderly and low life satisfaction elderly were self-esteem and economic state. In conclusion, it was found that self-esteem served as the strongest discriminant factors between happy and unhappy elderly people. Keywords : Happy elderly, Self-esteem, Neuroticism, Goal instability Received(April 23, 2018), Review Result(1st: May 7, 2018, 2nd: May 28, 2018), Accepted(June 7, 2018) ISSN: APJCRI Copyright 2018 SoCoRI 43

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Personality measures under focus: The NEO-PI-R and the MBTI

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