Personality and the Quality of Life of the Students in Łomża

Abstract

Personality and well-being of an individual have recently been the most widely researched notions in psychology. The following article concerns the characteristic of the students in Łomza according to the Big Five Model introduced by R.R.McCrae and P.T. Costy, fear as a trait and state as well as satisfaction with life, taking into consideration differences connected with sex. The research conducted on 100 students of Lomza State University of Applied Sciences helped to find differences in the researched features among female and male students. It has been discovered that the studying women have a higher level of neuroticism and satisfaction with life than the studying men. The presented research has an introductory purpose and can serve for further, more
detailed analysis of the subject.