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The current study aimed to identify the most common of the big five personality factors among a sample of Faculty of Education students (416 students) at Qassim University, as well as knowing the level of resistance to temptation and psychological happiness. As the study aimed to investigate the correlation between the big five personality factors, and resistance to temptation and psychological happiness, as well as knowing of predictability with resistance to temptation and psychological happiness by the big five personality factors. The study tools were Goldberg's big five personality factors inventory (translated into Arabic by Abo Hashim, 2007), resistance to temptation scale (Al Tarawna, 2007), and the list of Oxford of happiness (translated into Arabic by Abdul Khaiq, 2003). The study results indicated to that; the most common factors in order from high to low were agreeableness, openness to Experience, extraversion, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. There was high level of resistance to temptation and average level of psychological happiness. It was found a significant correlation relationship between the big five personality factors; and resistance to temptation and psychological happiness. In addition, it could be predicting with resistance to temptation and psychological happiness by the big five personality factors. (Published Abstract)