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The Effect of Neuroticism on Life-Satisfaction:Focused on the Moderating Effects of Mindfulness

This study examined the effect of neuroticism and mindfulness on life satisfaction. It further investigated whether their mindfulness moderated the relationship between neuroticism and life satisfaction. The participants were 388 students(71 men, 317 women) aged ninteen-seventy years at two university in Pusan city and Kyungnam provinces. Questionnaires on neuroticism, mindfulness and life satisfaction were completed by the participants on the online. The data were analyzed by Pearson’s product moment correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. The study reveals the follow results. First, the life-satisfaction was negatively correlated with neuroticism and positively correlated with the sub factors of mindfulness. Second, Describing and accept without judgement of sub factors of mindfulness moderated the effect of neuroticism on their life-satisfaction, but Observation and act with awareness dit not moderated the effect of neuroticism on their life-satisfaction. The higher the level of describing of the mindfulness is, the higher the level of life satisfaction in the group of the low level of neuroticism. the higher the level of accept without judgement of the mindfulness is, the higher the level of life satisfacion in the group of the high level of neuroticism. Lastly, the limitations and implications of the study were discussed.