The relationship between personality traits, happiness and general health with prosocial behaviors among martyrs and veterans university students

Abstract The main purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship of personality traits, happiness and general health with prosocial behaviors among shahrekord’s martyrs and veterans university students. For achieve to the research aims 290 university students were selected by categorical randomize sampeling, Questionnaires which used in this research were short form of personality traits(Bou & mitsrifris, 2007), Happiness Oxford (Augril, 2001) General Health (Goldberg and GHQ, 1979) and prosocial behaviors (carlo et al, 2003). Results of stepwise regression showed that happiness and agreeableness explained 8 percent of anonymous prosocial behaviors, extraversion and general health explained 6 percent of public-altruistic prosocial behaviors, agreeableness, emotional instability and extraversion explained 5 percent of emotional prosocial behaviors, conscientiousness explained 2 percent of dire prosocial behaviors and agreeableness, extraversion and general health explained 13 percent of compliant pro-social behaviors. Therefore, the role of personality traits, happiness and general health in prediction of prosocial behaviors, it is useful to consider these variables to improve prosocial behaviors in university students.