The Effect of Personality and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction on Life Satisfaction of Millennials

Abstract

The present study aimed to explore the effect of personality effect of personality traits and romantic relationship satisfaction on life satisfaction in millennials. The sample of 150 (75 males and 75 females) millennials born in between 1980 and 1996 were selected using random sampling technique. Personality was assessed using Five Factor Inventory (Costa & Mc Crae., 1992) Relationship Assessment Scale (Hendrick, 1998), Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985) were used to collect data from the participants. An Independent t-test was computed to determine whether there is a significant mean difference between males and females among all the variables. The findings of the study revealed that there were significant gender differences in personality traits, romantic relationship satisfaction and life satisfaction. Females were found to be high on conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism while males were found to be high on openness to experience and extraversion. Females were also found to be high on romantic relationship satisfaction and life satisfaction. The study also revealed that personality traits openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness were positively related to life satisfaction in both the genders. Romantic relationship satisfaction was also found to be positively related to life satisfaction.