The Relationship between Personality and Well-being Mediated by Gratitude and Mindfulness

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between big five personality traits and subjective well-being, mediated by gratitude and mindfulness. Here neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness variables were considered as antecedents. Also, we considered gratitude and mindfulness as mediators; and subjective well-being was a dependent variable. A sample including ۳۴۷ female postgraduates living in the dormitory of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz was provided using simple random sampling method. The instruments used in the research were Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WESWBS), Gratitude Questionnaire-Six Item Form (GQ-۶) (McCullough et al., ۲۰۰۱), Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MASS), and NEO-Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). The evaluation of the proposed model was carried out using path analysis method and SPSS Amos ۲۱.۰. Moreover, we applied Bootstrap method to examine intermediary hypotheses. The results showed that the indirect effect of neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness on subjective well-being through gratitude was significant. However, the role of mindfulness variable as a mediator was not proved. A better fit was achieved through eliminating non-significant paths of extraversion to mindfulness, openness to gratitude, conscientiousness to mindfulness, and mindfulness to subjective well-being.

کلیدواژه ها:

Personality Traits ، Subjective Well-being ، Gratitude ، Mindfulness