Impact of Deprivation on Five Big Personality Dimensions among College Students

India is a developing country in which more than 80 percent of the people are poor and experience deprivation for a prolonged period. This effect of deprivation on individual’s personality is very negative. These would hinder the growth & development of the nation because of the incomplete and partial growth of the individual potentials. The goal of the present study is to impact of the five big personality dimensions of high and low deprivation students. Objectives: To find out the impact of deprivation on five big dimensions of personality among college students. The sample consisted of 600 students; among 300 were high deprived and 300 were low deprived students. Selected students were measured on five big personality scale developed by John and Srivastava (1999). Results indicated that High and low level deprivation students were no significantly differences in the Extroversion, Agreeableness, Consciousness, and Openness to experience of personality dimensions. High and low level deprivation students were significantly differences in Neuroticism of personality dimension.