Predicting of psychological well-being with adoloscents according to personali̇ty traits and life goals

This study was conducted in order to determine the predictive power of relationships with personality traits and life goals in psychological well-being of adolescents. The validity and realibity studies of Psychological Well-being Scale, Life Goals Scale, Personality Traits Scale was conducted with 635 adoloscents who were located in İstanbul.The sample of the research contained 933 high school students who were being educated in Üsküdar and Kadıköy, İstanbul. Psychological Well-being Scale, Life Goals Scale, Adjective Based Test and Personal İnformation Form which was designed by the researcher were used in the study to collect the data. The Statistical Package For Social Sicence (SPSS) version 18.0 was used to analyze the data collected on this research.Stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to determine predictive power of relationships with internal-external life goals, openness to experience, conscientious, extroversion, aggreableness, neuroticisim on the psychological well-being of adolescents. Considering the finding of the study, it was found that internal-external life goals, extroversion, neuroticisim, aggreableness, openness to experience, conscientious were significant predictors of psychological well-being of adolescents. These findings were discussed in comparison with the findings of previous research in the literature.