Relationship between Personality and Psychological well-being among Middle Adults

By : Manjula. M.Y., Reshma N.S

Page No: 361-365

Abstract
The current study aims at exploring relationship between personality and psychological well-being among middle adults. The study consists of 200 middle adults (male=100, females=100), age range between 43-55 yrs, drawn from urban population of Mangalore city, Karnataka. All the participants were administered Psychological well-being scale by Seema Mehrotra (2012) and NEO Five Factor inventory by Costa. P.T & McCrae. RR. (1992). The data was analyzed using Pearson correlation co-efficient. The results revealed significant inverse relationship between neuroticism and all the dimensions of psychological well-being. Conscientiousness is observed to have positive significant relationship with all the dimensions of psychological well-being. Extroversion is significantly positively correlated with mastery, positive relationship, and overall psychological well-being. Openness has significant positive relationship with self acceptance, engagement and overall psychological well-being, Agreeableness is positively significantly correlated only with mastery.

Authors :
Reshma.N.S. : Research Scholar, Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in Psychology, S.D.M.College (Autonomous), Ujire-574240, Karnataka, India.
Manjula.M.Y. : Professor & Head — Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in Psychology, S.D.M. College (Autonomous), Ujire-574240, Karnataka, India