A Study On Female Postgraduate's Subjective Well-being And Its Relationship With Personality Traits

Subjective well-being is the global evaluation on life quality conducted by an evaluator himself according to the criteria set by himself. As a vital and comprehensive psychological index for individual live quality, it reflects life for the most part or in a long term. Personality, individual manners formed in the long time of life, of cross-temporal and cross-regional constancy, has a strong impact on subjective well-being. What sort of impact such an influential factor as personality may have on subjective well-being among female postgraduate's turns out the focus of this research.The major purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between the personality characteristics of female postgraduates and their subjective well-being. The total of the 304 full-time female postgraduates in Nanjing were tested with their seven personality dimensions and their subjective well-being, and were evaluated by General well-being schedule (GWB), Index of Well-being and The Chinese College Student Personality Scale (CCSPS). With the data processed by SPSS, the main results of this research are as follows:1. Differences in sex, genders, academic qualifications, hometowns and grades, rather than in majors, marital status or being the single child or not, lead to apparent differences in subjective well-being;2. Among the seven personality dimensions, tenacity and easy-goingness have positive effects on subjective well- being, with a positive forecast on it, while preciseness and emotionality work oppositely.Based on the results of the demonstrative survey and the research, suggestions are made to enhance female postgraduates' subjective well-being:1. Strategies for individual enhancement;2. Strategies for education in collegial and social perspectives.