E-ISSN : 2733-4538
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of personality characteristics, gender, job-seeking stress and mental health in 2,530 college seniors. 79% responded that they had job-seeking stress. The results from mean comparison, correlation, and multiple regression showed that degree of stress differed according to personality characteristics and gender. That is, the more neuroticism and negative self-esteem, and the less ego-resilience, positive self-esteem, extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience they had, the more job-seeking stress and negative mental health such as depression, anxiety, and social maladjustment they experienced. And women experienced more job-seeking stress and negative mental health than men. Suggestions for this study and further research about longitudinal study were discussed.