We examine inclusion and status as potential mediators in the relationships between extraversion and agreeableness, on the one hand, and life satisfaction, on the other hand. Previous research has shown that agreeableness is less strongly related to life satisfaction compared to extraversion. We argue that the relatively weak association between agreeableness and life satisfaction is due to the fact that, even though this personality trait is positively related to inclusion, it is only weakly related to status. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and survey data from Australia, Denmark and Sweden, we test five hypotheses about the linkages between these personality traits, inclusion, status and life satisfaction. Our results show that both extraversion and agreeableness are positively associated with life satisfaction and that this association is much stronger for extraversion. Furthermore, our results show that extraversion is reliably associated with both inclusion and status, whereas agreeableness is a reliable predictor of inclusion but not of status. Turning to our mediation analysis, our main results demonstrate that the relationship between extraversion and life satisfaction is fully mediated by both inclusion and status, whereas the relationship between agreeableness and life satisfaction is partially mediated by inclusion. Our mediation analysis further shows that agreeableness has a negative direct effect on life satisfaction over and above the positive indirect effect through inclusion. Our findings highlight the role of both inclusion and status as important mediators in the relationships between extraversion and agreeableness, on the one hand, and life satisfaction, on the other hand.

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宜人性、外向性和生活满意度：调查社会包容和地位的中介作用

我们将包容性和地位作为一方面外向性和宜人性与另一方面生活满意度之间关系的潜在中介。先前的研究表明，与外向性相比，宜人性与生活满意度的相关性较低。我们认为宜人性和生活满意度之间相对较弱的关联是由于这样一个事实，尽管这种人格特质与包容性呈正相关，但与地位的相关性较弱。使用结构方程模型 (SEM) 和来自澳大利亚、丹麦和瑞典的调查数据，我们测试了关于这些人格特征、包容性、地位和生活满意度之间联系的五个假设。我们的研究结果表明，外向性和宜人性都与生活满意度呈正相关，而且这种关联对于外向性更强。此外，我们的结果表明，外向性与包容性和地位可靠相关，而宜人性是包容性而非地位的可靠预测指标。转向我们的中介分析，我们的主要结果表明，外向性和生活满意度之间的关系完全由包容和地位调节，而宜人性和生活满意度之间的关系部分由包容调节。我们的中介分析进一步表明，除了通过包容产生的积极间接影响之外，宜人性还对生活满意度产生消极的直接影响。