Personality correlates of subjective well-being and life satisfaction

Pages:358-361
Mamta Jain and Meeta Jha (Pt. Ravishankar University, Raipur, Chattisgarh)

Subjective well-being (SWB) reveals how people evaluate their lives, with variables like life satisfaction, in presence of positive emotions and absence of negative emotions. In present scenario psychologists are interested in knowing what makes people happy, how we can enhance happiness, which are the factors which influence subjective satisfaction. One of the important topics of research that has gained a lot of interest and attention is for defining and knowing the depth of the relationship between personality and subjective well-being (SWB). Many researches all over the world, in this field indicated a link and important relationship between personality and SWB, and personality is found to be one of the most stable and strong predictors of SWB. In India, in present condition, when everyone is talking about females and secured conditions for females in society, a great need emerged to explore relationship between personality traits and subjective well-being with life satisfaction. Thus to investigate the personality correlates of SWB and life satisfaction, the present study was designed with a total sample of 500 educated females in urban area of Raipur City. Sample was selected from general population from almost all the colleges and educational institutes of Raipur City. For this purpose 16 PF and Subjective well-being scale with life satisfaction were used. Correlation and regression analysis were used to find out the relationship between 16 personality factors and SWB with life satisfaction. It was found out that personality traits Emotionally stable/affected by feelings, sober/happy-Go-lucky, conscientious/expedient, shy/venturesome, tough/tender minded , conservative/experimenting, group dependent/self sufficient found to be positively correlated with SWB with life satisfaction. Secondly, it was also found that only four personality traits among sixteen personality traits emerged out as most significant contributing predictor for SWB with life satisfaction.