Subjective Well-Being in Relation to Personality Factors of Zuckerman's Alternative Five Factor Model

The present investigation was carried out to examine the relationship between personality dimensions of Alternative Five Factor Model developed by Marvin Zuckerman and Subjective Well-Being. To realize the main objective, 100 Post-graduate students (62 males and 38 females) with the age ranging from 18 to 26 years selected from various P.G. departments of K.U.K. participated in the study. The subjects were administered Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire and Friedman Well-Being Scale after proper rapport. Obtained data were analysed by using descriptive statistics and Pearson's Correlations. Results have revealed Neuroticism-Anxiety, Impulsive-Sensation Seeking, and Aggression-Hostility to be significant negative correlates of Subjective Well-Being whereas Sociability has marked positive association with Subjective Well-being. It depicts that persons characterized as high on Neuroticism-Anxiety, Impulsive-Sensation Seeking, and Aggression-Hostility tend to have low level of Subjective Well-Being. Persons high on Sociability (Extraversion) tend to be high on Subjective Well-Being.