AYESHA MUSHTAQBAKHTAWAR MIR2025-12-042025-12-042021https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/15124The present research aimed to explore the relationship among personality traits, optimism and somatic symptom disorder among female university students during COVID-19. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be relationship between personality traits, optimism and somatic symptom disorder among female university students during COVID-19. The sample consisted of N= 110 university female students drawn from Lahore using non-probability sampling technique. Personality traits, optimism and somatic symptom disorder was measured by The 24-item Brief HEXACO Inventory (BHI) (Vries, 2013), Life Orientation Test (LOT) (Scheier et al., 1994), and Patient health questionnaire (PHQ-15) ( Kroenke, 2002) respectively. Descriptive analysis was calculated. For further investigation, Pearson product moment correlation analysis, regression analysis and mediation analysis were used. Results showed that personality trait (emotionality) was found negatively significant with optimism and positively significant with somatic symptom disorder. Optimism was found to be negatively significant with somatic symptom disorder. Results of regression analysis showed that emotionality was a significant predictor of somatic symptom disorder. Results of mediation analysis showed that optimism was not significant mediator between emotionality and somatic symptom disorder. The study implied that the psychological or mental issues as the results of pandemic states were equally important as medical or economic problems and they were needed to be addressedenThesis