Abstract

The present study tried 1) to identify the characteristics of personality of married women, comparing with the other people's reports and being analyzed by age, 2) to explore the factors of personality predicting subjective well-being of married women. A group of 370 married women answered on their own personality and subjective well-being, and 360 people reported on other married women's personality. In results, married women showed differences on personality of openness to experience, agreeableness, consciousness, and differences on subjective well-being of positive affect in relation to their age(20-30s vs. 40-50s). Other people's reports on married women's personality were, in general, more negative than those of married women. In addition, of among various socioeconomic variables, educational level, employment, income, marrital status were significant predictors of married women's subjective well-being. In last, showing significant relationship between personality factors and subjective well-being, neuroticism, openness to experience, consciousness, extraversion were significant predictors of the subjective well-being of married women.