subjective well-being and its relationship with personality traits, irrational beliefs, and social support: a model test

Background: considering the change in the life situation during the student period, attention to their health, especially the subjective well-being of students, is of particular importance. social support is very important in this era and the aim of this study is to examine a model between subjective well-being and personality traits and irrational beliefs with the mediation of social support. methods: the statistical population included all the students of hacettepe university in turkey, and 296 people were selected as a sample using a multi-stage random method. to measure subjective well-being, social support, personality traits and irrational beliefs, subjective well-being scale (tuzgöl dost, 2005a); perceived social support scale (psss) (yıldırım, 2004); adjective-based personality test (bacanlı, ilhan, & aslan, 2009) and the irrational beliefs scale short form (türküm, 2003) scales were used, respectively, which were psychologically conducted in turkey for turkish samples and had good validity and reliability. results: the model test through structural equations showed that there is a significant relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness both directly and indirectly through social support and subjective well-being. in this model, the indirect relationship of agreeableness with subjective well-being through social support was significant, but extroversion, interpersonal communication, and relational self-perception could not show a significant relationship through the mediation of social support on subjective well-being. conclusion: neuroticism and conscientiousness are both directly and indirectly related to subjective well-being through social support. the indirect relationship of agreeableness with subjective well-being was confirmed through social support, but extroversion and interpersonal communication and self-view showed a direct relationship with well-being and the mediation of social support was not confirmed in their case.