N2 - The present study focused on relationships between personality traits, self-efficacy, self-esteem and basic trust, and well-being in context of entrepreneurial activity. Participants were 301 unemployed people, 157 of whom had received a grant from an employment agency to start their own business. Participants completed measures of personality traits, self-efficacy, self-esteem, basic trust, satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect. To verify if beliefs about the self and about the world mediated relationships between personality traits and well-being we conducted a multiple-sample SEM. The study results confirm that the beliefs mediate relationships between personality traits and well-being. They also show that different types of beliefs serve a different function, depending on an individual’s circumstances. Among grant acceptors, self-efficacy did not impact well-being, while self-esteem and basic trust had similar functions in both groups. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/103951/PDF/PPB%202-18%202%20Zi%C4%99ba%20et%20al.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/103951 PY - 2018 IS - No 2: Integrated approach to personality and well-being DO - 10.24425/119480 KW - well-being KW - Five Factor Model of personality KW - beliefs KW - characteristic adaptations A1 - Zięba, Mariusz A1 - Surawska, Monika A1 - Zalewska, Anna Maria PB - Committee for Psychological Science PAS VL - vol. 49 DA - 2018.06.15 T1 - Relationships between personality traits, general self-efficacy, self-esteem, subjective well-being, and entrepreneurial activity UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/103951 T2 - Polish Psychological Bulletin