The Relationships among Personality Traits, Meaning in Life, and Spiritual Well-being for Undergraduate Students

• Main Authors: Jung, Yu-Yan, 鐘裕燕
• Other Authors: Wu, Pei-Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w8rgqb

碩士 === 國立屏東大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系碩士班 === 106 === 　　The study aimed to test how personality traits and meaning in life to predict spiritual well-being for undergraduate students. A sample of 383undergraduate students was chosen from several universities located at Kaohsiung and Pingtung cities. The main findings in this study were obtained as follows: 1. The mean scores of five personality traits were above 3 points (ranging from 3.08~3.52). The degrees of meaning in life and spiritual well-being were at median level. 2. Gender and religious beliefs were not related to total scores of spiritual well-being and subscale of “Self-Efficacy”; however, females had higher scores on subscale of “Life Scheme” than males did. 3. The associations among personality traits, meaning in life, and predict spiritual well-being (1)"Extraversion", "Agreeableness", "Conscientiousness", and "Openness to Experience" were positively correlated with "spiritual well-being" and its two subscales ("Life Scheme" and "Self-Efficacy"); however, "Neuroticism" was negatively correlated with "spiritual well-being". (2) "Presence of meaning in life" and "spiritual well-being" were positively associated, but "Search for meaning in life" and "spiritual well-being" were non-significantly associated. 4. The effects of personality traits and meaning in life on spiritual well-being (1)Sex and religion failed to predict both "spiritual well-being" and its subscales. (2)Five personality traits consisted of two factors: implicit factors (i.e., neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness) and explicit factors (i.e., experience to openness and extroversion). Only implicit factors could significantly predict spiritual well-being. (3)The predictors for two subscales of spiritual well-being were different. (4)Both "Presence of meaning in life" and "Search for meaning in life" could significantly predict spiritual well-being and its subscales. However, the former had positive predictive power and the latter had negative power. (5)Compared to personality traits, the meaning of life was more associated with spiritual well-being and subscale of Life Scheme for undergraduate students.