The structural relation between personality traits, self-efficiency beliefs and subjective well-being among staff of Universities

Subjective well-being is the psychological component of quality of life, which has a pivotal role in achievement of success and increasing favourable behaviours; therefore it is of great importance to study that in different societies. Current Study aimed to investigate the structural relations between personality, self-efficiency and subjective well-being. This is a correlational study which was performed on 479 individuals of Guilan universities’ staff. They were selected by cluster sampling. The data collection tools were Iranian Big Five Inventory (GARDON), Self-Efficacy and subjective well-being questionnaires. Next, data analysis was done using structural equation modeling. Analysis showed that personality traits and self-efficacy predict 46% of subjective well-being variation. The total effect coefficients (summation of direct and indirect path coefficient) of the three factors of neuroticism/emotional stability, extraversion/happiness and conscience/humility was significant (p<0.01); and self-efficacy significantly mediates the relations between these three traits and subjective well-being. Considering the significant mediating role of self-efficacy in relation between personality traits and subjective well-being, we can increase the positive effect of extraversion trait, and decrease the negative effect of neuroticism on the well-being of individuals through training cognitive skills.