Psychological happiness and its relationship to the five major factors of personality among students of Omar Al-Mukhtar University

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify the level of Psychological Well – Being among university students, as
well as to reveal the relationship Psychological Well – Being and the Big five factors of personality
(Extraversion - Neuroticism - Openness To Experience – Agreeableness Conscientiousness) Sample
consisted of (106) male and female students of (45) male and (61) female students, who were randomly
selected from the departments of the College of Arts and Sciences in the Dome Branch.This study used the
Oxford Happiness Questionnaire prepared by Argyle & Hills (2002), a quadruple translation (2014), and the
Big Five Personality Factors Scale, prepared by Costa & McCrae (1992), translated by Quartet (2014)The 
results of the study resulted in the following results: that the level of psychological happiness among the
sample members is high, and there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between
psychological happiness and all dimensions of the major factors of personality at a significance level less
than (0.05), except after neuroticism, the relationship was significant at a level less than ( 0.05), except that it
was a negative relationship, and there were no statistically significant differences due to the gender variable
in psychological happiness