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The current research aims at recognizing the five major factors of personality and their relationship to both psychological happiness and hope among postgraduate students at Jazan University. The whole sample consisted of 136 students chosen from College of Education and College of Arts and Humanities. Psychological happiness scale and hope scale and the list of the five major factors of personality. were administered to the sample. Correlation coefficient, t-test, and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the data. Results indicated that there is a statistically significant correlation between the scores of the five major factors of personality and psychological happiness among postgraduate students at Jazan University. Additionally, there is a statistically significant correlation between the scores of the five major factors of personality and hope. Results indicated also the possibility of predicting psychological happiness .through the major five factors of personality in addition to the possibility of predicting hope among postgraduate students at Jazan University through the major five factors of personality. Results indicated also that there is no difference in the degree of both psychological happiness and hope. (Published Abstract)