Fearing what we want, and its relation to individual-specific factors and life satisfaction

Pages: 971-977
Abhishek Agarwal and Madhavi Rangaswamy (Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka)

The study explores the relationship between Self-construals, Personality factors (Big-Five), Fear of Happiness, Fear of Success, Fear of Compassion and Life satisfaction. The study is conducted on a young adult female sample (n=241) and the relationship between the variables are explored using statistical measures of correlation and regression. The correlation reveal that the variables under study are significantly related. The study concludes that the mentioned fears, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Independent Self-Construal are predictors of life satisfaction. The result and discussion section talks about the interaction between the variables of concern. The study also provides suggestion for construction of a model for future research.