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    Personality characteristics
    (UMT.Lahore, 2016) Dania Mehboob
    Personality characteristics are reflection of how an individual act, think, and behave and exhibit emotions (Lazarus, 2006) and positive emotions contribute to beneficial and healthy outcomes. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2001) provides a valuable framework with which to understand the functional significance of positive emotions in context of various outcomes. Personality characteristics also enable the persona to think creatively (Basadur, 2004). Creativity is one of these dimensions revealing linear relationship with positive emotions (Amabile, Barsade, Mueller & Staw, 2005). Present study aimsat exploring the impact of personality characteristics on positive emotions and creativity in nuns. It was hypothesized that personality characteristics of Nuns have significant impact on positive emotions and creativity in them. In this correlational study, sample of study comprised of 47 Roman Catholic Nuns in various churches, schools and hostels in Lahore, Pakistan contacted through convenient and snowball sampling technique. Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI, 2003), Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS, 2012) and Emotional Needs Scale (ENS, 2008) are administered to assess personality characteristics, creativity and positive emotions respectively. Pearson Product Moment correlation and Stepwise Regression analyses areapplied to test the study hypotheses. Findings suggest that participants with high scores on personality characteristics exhibit creativity and positive emotions in their daily life routine. Regression analysis revealed that personality characteristic extraversion is the strongest predictor of creativity (t=4.36, p= .000***) and positive emotions (t=5.20, p=.000***) in nuns. In conclusion, personality characteristics can be inferred as important factor facilitating creativity and positive emotionsthat may result in buffering individuals against unhealthy outcomes. Currentresearch also indicates that it is useful to assess personality characteristics in nuns in order to enquire how positive they are in emotions and creative in nature.