The Relationship between Big Five Factors Personality of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness with Marital Satisfaction

This study investigated the relationship between Big Five Personality Factors of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness With the degree of Marital Satisfaction. The sample included all the married students of public universities’, of Tehran living in the dormitory, is composed of 174 married students (87 couples) selected by cluster sampling and randomization. ENRICH and NEO-FF-I questionnaires were used to data gathering. Results showed a significant but negative relationship between neuroticism with marital satisfaction and significant and positive relationship between extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness with marital satisfaction. there was no significant relationship between openness with marital satisfaction. Furthermore results of multivariate regression analysis showed that neuroticism and agreeableness have the most relationship with marital satisfaction. Thus they have power of prediction at a level significant statistically.