The Relationship between Personality Traits and Subjective Wellbeing among Undergraduate Students

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between personality traits and subjective wellbeing among undergraduate students. A sample of 146 students (45 males and 98 females and 3 were other gender) was taken who fall under the age range of 18-25 years, was administered HEXACO60 personality test and College student subjective wellbeing questionnaire (CSSWQ). Pearson correlation coefficients and Multiple regression is used in analysis of the data with the help of SPSS software. The results revealed that there is significant correlation between personality traits and subjective wellbeing, specifically extraversion, honesty-humility, agreeableness, and openness to experience show the positive relations with the measures of subjective wellbeing. The results indicated significant correlations between several personality traits and subjective wellbeing measures. Moreover, a multiple regression analysis results indicated that the six personality traits collectively accounted for 37.3% of the variance in overall subjective wellbeing helped to determine the combined influence of the personality traits on overall subjective wellbeing.