Personality Traits, Religious Faith, Life Satisfaction, and Perceived Stress of Personnel at Executive Positions

Abstract

The study aimed at finding relationship among personality traits, religious faith, life satisfaction and perceived stress of personnel at executivepositions. Correlational study design was used. One hundred executives from different private sector organizations of Karachi, Pakistan were selected through purposive sampling technique. Big Five Personality Inventory (Rammstedt & John, 2007), Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985), Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen et al., 1983), and Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire (Plante et al., 2002) were administered to measure the variables. Pearson product moment correlation and Hierarchical regression analysis indicated significant predictive relationship of personality traits with life satisfaction and perceived stress. Neuroticism was found to bethe only trait causing unique variance in life satisfaction and perceived stress. Further, religious faith significantly contributed an additional variance in life satisfaction and perceived stress however, no mediational role of religious faith was signified. The study findings are of great help to organizational and clinical psychologists in understanding problems of executives in organizational context of Pakistan.