Background: Among many possible variables that can be associated with gratitude, researchers list personality traits. Considering that these relationships are not always consistent, the first purpose of the present study was to verify how the Big Five factors connect to dispositional gratitude in a sample of Polish participants. The second purpose was to assess the unique contribution of personality traits on gratitude with multiple regression analyses. Moreover, because much remains to be learned about whether these associations are indirectly influenced by different personal or social variables, the third goal was to explore the role of emotional intelligence as a potential mediational mechanism implicated in the relationship between personality traits and gratitude.
Participants, Methods and Data Collection: The sample consisted of 712 Polish respondents who were aged between 17 and 88. Most of them were women (64.3%). They answered questionnaires concerning their personality traits, emotional intelligence, and gratitude. The research was conducted using the paper-and-pencil method through convenience sampling.
Results: The results showed that both gratitude and emotional intelligence correlated positively and significantly with extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Gratitude and emotional intelligence correlated negatively and significantly with neuroticism. The personality predictor of gratitude with the highest and positive standardized regression value was agreeableness, followed by openness to experience and extraversion. Neuroticism had a negative impact on gratitude. Conscientiousness was the only statistically insignificant predictor in the tested multiple regression model. Moreover, emotional intelligence mediated the relationship between four dimensions of personality (extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) and gratitude and acted as a suppressor between neuroticism and gratitude.
Conclusion: The current study broadens our comprehension of the interaction among personality traits, emotional intelligence, and a grateful disposition. Moreover, it imparts a noteworthy foundation not only for the mediatory role of emotional intelligence between four dimensions of personality and gratitude but also for its suppressor effect between neuroticism and being grateful.



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大五人格特质与感恩：情商的作用

背景：在与感恩相关的许多可能变量中，研究人员列出了人格特征。考虑到这些关系并不总是一致的，本研究的第一个目的是验证大五因素如何与波兰参与者样本中的性格感恩相关联。第二个目的是通过多元回归分析评估人格特质对感恩的独特贡献。此外，由于这些关联是否受到不同的个人或社会变量的间接影响还有很多需要了解，所以第三个目标是探索情商作为一种潜在的中介机制的作用，这种机制涉及人格特质和感恩之间的关系。
参与者、方法和数据收集：样本包括 712 名年龄在 17 至 88 岁之间的波兰受访者。其中大多数是女性（64.3%）。他们回答了关于他们的性格特征、情商和感恩的问卷。本研究采用纸笔法，通过便利抽样进行。
结果：结果表明，感恩和情商都与外向性、对经验的开放性、随和性和责任心呈显着正相关。感恩和情商与神经质呈显着负相关。具有最高和正标准化回归值的感恩人格预测因子是宜人性，其次是经验开放性和外向性。神经质对感恩有负面影响。在测试的多元回归模型中，尽责性是唯一在统计上不显着的预测因子。此外，情商在人格的四个维度（外向性、对经验的开放性、随和性、
结论：目前的研究拓宽了我们对人格特质、情商和感恩性格之间相互作用的理解。此外，它不仅为情商在人格四个维度与感恩之间的中介作用，而且为其在神经质和感恩之间的抑制作用提供了值得注意的基础。