Examining the Relationship between Students’ Personality and Mental Health at University of Guilan, Iran

The main objective of the present research was the scrutiny of the relationship between students’ personality characteristics and mental health at the University of Guilan, Iran. Mental health is a crucial need for improving human’s life quality. The population was the students of the Faculty of Humanities in 2009 with 3000 of which 341 were selected using the Kerjeci & Morgan table and by using the stratified sampling method. For analysis of the questioners 175 were used because due to return and bad filling. They answered the NEO and GHQ questionnaires. The results showed that there was a relationship between personality characteristics of neurotic, openness, extraversion and being conscionable with mental health. Meanwhile, openness had the highest and extraversion with the lowest correlation scale and most of the students (65%) had low mental health. Also, there were no significant differences among students with respect to different courses but significant differences with respect to gender and age. It is necessary to strengthen the personality traits training of students, especially those with typical neurotic personality traits, to maintain the mental health of those students.