Role of Personality Dimension in Predicting of General Health in Overseas

Providing and maintaining of health is one of the great goal of mankind that has approach relation with personality. This research has been done to determine the role of five personality traits in predicting of students general health. It was a description and correlation method. The Population was all of students in overseas university in Dubai city that included Shahid Beheshti, Islamic Azad University and Payam-e-Noor University in 2010. Through Cochran's formula selected 78 students with simple random. The used tools contained short form personality traits questionnaire with 60 questions (NEO-FFI-60) and reliability 0.75 and general health questionnaire (GHQ-28) with reliability 0.82. Data analyzed by stepwise procedure regression analysis. According to β coefficients, from predictor variables, neuroticism had the most correlation with general health (-0.33), then extraversion (0.32), openness (0.28) and agreeableness (0.21); but relation between conscientiousness and general health wasn’t significant. Generally four personality traits explained 45 percent from general health variance. Personality traits can be good predictors for general health. This research has effective results in university period that is a sensitive age from decision making aspects in their future.

personality, personality traits, general Health, overseas students