Personality, Stressful Life Events, Meaning in Life and Reasons for Living Dogra Atanu Kumar, Basu Saugata, Das Sanjukta, Chaudhuri Anindita Department of Psychology, Calcutta University, 92, A.P.C. Road, Kolkata-700009 Online published on 10 January, 2012. Abstract The present study examines the roles of personality, stressful life events in last one year, presence of meaning, search for meaning, reasons for living in predicting trait hope and state hope of college students. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.The Presumptive Stressful Life Event Scale, The Meaning in Life Questionnaire, Reasons for Living Inventory for Young Adults or RFL-YA, The future Scale, Goals Scale for the present were administered to 320 college students comprising of 160 males and 160 females, of 4 college of Kolkata. The obtained data have been analyzed using hierarchical regression analysis. The findings suggest that except stressful life events and presence of meaning, other predictor variables i.e. personality, search for meaning, reasons for living contribute significantly on criterion variable (trait hope and state hope). Therefore it is concluded from the present study that search for meaning and reasons for living act as buffer against stress and contribute to trait hope and state hope among college students. Top Keywords Optimism, extraversion, eeuroticism, psychoticism, state hope, trait hope, meaning in life, reasons for living. Top |