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Big Five personality traits: Are they really important for the subjective well‐being of Indians?
Author(s) -
Tanksale Deepa
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1002/ijop.12060
Subject(s) - psychology , big five personality traits , agreeableness , extraversion and introversion , openness to experience , conscientiousness , neuroticism , hierarchical structure of the big five , affect (linguistics) , personality , life satisfaction , subjective well being , big five personality traits and culture , social psychology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , happiness , communication
This study empirically examined the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and subjective well‐being ( SWB ) in India. SWB variables used were life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect. A total of 183 participants in the age range 30–40 years from Pune, India, completed the personality and SWB measures. Backward stepwise regression analysis showed that the Big Five traits accounted for 17% of the variance in life satisfaction, 35% variance in positive affect and 28% variance in negative affect. Conscientiousness emerged as the strongest predictor of life satisfaction. In line with the earlier research findings, neuroticism and extraversion were found to predict negative affect and positive affect, respectively. Neither openness to experience nor agreeableness contributed to SWB . The research emphasises the need to revisit the association between personality and SWB across different cultures, especially non‐western cultures.