PERSONALITY FACTORS AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF UNIVERSITY LECTURERS IN SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA

Opayemi, A.S. ()
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Opayemi, A.S.: Department of Psychology, Postal: University of Ilorin, Nigeria,, https://fssunilorinedu.org/ijbss/index.php

Ilorin Journal of Business and Social Sciences, 2017, vol. 19, issue 1, 164-181

Abstract: The study investigated the influence of personality factors (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience) on Subjective Well-being of University Lecturers in south-western Nigeria. The study also examined the mediating role of goal management on the relationship between personality factors and Subjective Well-being. The survey method was adopted in this study, the purposive sampling technique was used to select four universities in the south western part of Nigeria. A total of 600 respondents comprising of 423 males and 177 females selected from university academic staff were used for this study, using the stratified sampling technique. Data were collected on the five-factor personalities of the Big-five personality scale, social demographic characteristics and Subjective Well-being, using validated scales. The data were analyzed using multiple regression and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. There was a significant positive relationship between each of the five personality factors (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience) and Subjective Well-being (life satisfacttin, positive and Negative Affect). The result of the multiple regressions also showed that Personality factors independently influenced Subjective Well-being extraversion (â = .14; t = 2.95, p

Keywords: Personality factors; Subjective Well-being; University lecturers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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