The causal relationships among personality, role satisfaction, and self-esteem

The purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationships among personality, role satisfaction, and self-esteem.Rolefulness is defined as the continuous sense of role satisfaction in our daily lives and includes two sub-factors: social and internal rolefulness.The Big Five model was used as a measurement tool of personality in this study.The Big Five model includes five subfactors: extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.In this study, the data of 617 Japanese high school students were analyzed.The results of the analysis revealed that social and internal rolefulness converged into rolefulness as the latent variable.Moreover, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness increased rolefulness and facilitated self-esteem.The results of this study revealed a process that indicates how individual personality characteristics influence the promotion of rolefulness and the development of self-esteem.Furthermore, the results of this study suggested that psychological characteristics specific to the age of high school students may influence this process.