The Relationship between University Student's Thinking about the Hereafter and Their Five of Personality Characteristics

“Survival instinct” is one of man’s prime motives and thinking about the hereafter is one of the important aspects of spirituality. The present paper seeks to investigate the relationship between university student's thinking about the hereafter and their five personality characteristics. To this end, 220 students from Tehran University were chosen for the survey. They completed Ibrahimi- Bahrami’s scales about reflection on the hereafter (2010- 1389 solar) and NEO-FFI. The data were analyzed by statistical indexes including average, standard deviation, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and stepwise regression. The results show that the relationship of overall reflection on the hereafter with extraversion, openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness is significant and positive and its relationship with neuroticism is significant and negative. The results of stepwise regression show that conscientiousness and extraversion explain about %31 of the variance of reflection on the hereafter.