Openness protects against well-being decline only when emotional stability is average or high¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? A significant openness × emotional stability interaction (β = –.007, p = .010) showed openness predicted higher well-being at high (β = –.297, p < .001) and average (β = –.163, p = .004) emotional stability, but not at low levels (β = –.475, p = .635). → Zavhorodnia 2026

Evidence¶

Zavhorodnia 2026¶

Zavhorodnia, O. V., & Shepelova, M. V. (2026). Big Five Traits and Tolerance for Uncertainty as Protective Factors of Subjective Well-Being of Students in Martial Law Conditions. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 22(2). https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.17767

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Moderation analysis (Hayes Model 1, bootstrap confidence intervals) on the 147-student sample, visualized in Figure 2. The authors conclude openness "does not exert a protective effect" at low emotional stability.

"A significant interaction effect was found between openness and emotional stability (β = –.007, p = .010). Simple slopes analysis revealed that openness predicted higher subjective well-being at high (β = –.297, p < .001) and average (β = –.163, p = .004) levels of emotional stability, but not at low levels (β = –.475, p = .635)"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Personality Traits — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Emotional stability shows the strongest negative association with decline in students' subjective well-being under martial law — related
• Openness partially mediates effects of extraversion and novelty tolerance, and fully mediates general uncertainty tolerance, on well-being decline — related
• Extraversion correlates negatively with well-being decline in wartime students, though less strongly than emotional stability — related
• Conscientiousness and tolerance for novelty show small negative associations with well-being decline; other uncertainty-tolerance facets do not — related
• Agreeableness is unexpectedly a weak risk factor for well-being decline in wartime students
• Protective factors attenuate the effects of risk as risk rises, producing gap-closing effects represented analytically as Risk × Protective Factor interactions — a broader claim this one bears on