The Relationship between Personality Traits and Psychological Resilience among the Caribbean Adolescents

Abstract

This cross-sectional study investigated the relationships between the big flve personality traits: (conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, extraversion) and psychological resilience among 397 Caribbean secondary school adolescents. Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Stepwise Multiple Regressions were conducted to analyse the data. Results revealed statistically signiflcant positive relationships between the personality traits (conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness to experience, extraversion) and psychological resilience, while neuroticism was negatively correlated with psychological resilience. The personality traits also jointly contributed 32% (R square = 0.324) of the variance being accounted for in psychological resilience and this was found to be statistically significant with conscientiousness being the best predictor while agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience were other signiflcant predictors, however, extraversion did not contribute signiflcantly. These results are discussed in the light of healthy personality beefing up and promoting adolescents' psychological resilience.