This research aimed to examine the contribution of five personality traits and emotional competencies in explaining the variance of importance and satisfaction with the quality of life. From Cummins’ theory of subjective well-being, it was assumed that emotional competencies and personality traits could determine an individual’s subjective experience of life satisfaction. Based on 144 undergraduate students aged 19-34, the basic dimensions of personality, emotional competence, and importance and satisfaction with the quality of life were examined. Depending on the criterion, personality traits successfully predicted quality of life, while the set of emotional competencies was more predictive of importance than of satisfaction with quality of life. Future research should, in addition to personality dimensions, include other environmental and objective variables that, according to the theory of the basic level of happiness, affect the quality and satisfaction with life

personality traits, emotional competencies, life satisfaction