The present study examined the extent to which Emotional Intelligence and Personality traits predict Life Satisfaction. Secondly, the study investigated the association between i) Emotional Intelligence & Life Satisfaction ii) Personality traits & Life Satisfaction among three different populations -Adolescents (100), Adults (102) and Aged (100). The mean age of the adolescent, adult and aged participant group was 17.28, 28 and 61.45 respectively. All the three participant groups were chosen from different areas of district, Srinagar by using purposive sampling method. Emotional Intelligence and Personality traits were the predictor variables while Life Satisfaction was the criterion variable in the present study. Instruments used were SWLS (Diener et al, 1985), NEO-FFI-3 (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and MEII (Mangal & Mangal, 2004). Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis revealed that various factors of emotional intelligence were positively correlated with life satisfaction whereas most of the personality traits showed significant (both positive and negative) correlations with life satisfaction in all the three participant groups. The present study indicated that some of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) factors emerged as the significant predictors of life satisfaction whereas among the personality traits Conscientiousness (C) and Neuroticism (N) emerged as the significant predictors of life satisfaction in the adolescent and aged participant groups respectively
