The paper shows the results of an empirical study of personal characteristics as predictors of subjective well-being of a person with diverse employment status carried out on a sample of temporarily unemployed people registered at the Engels employment center and unemployed (N=362, 19–63 years old, using following diagnostic tools: the scale of psychological well-being (K. Ryff in adaptation of L. V. Zhukovskaya and E. G. Troshikhina), the scale of life satisfaction (E. Diener in adaptation of D. A. Leontiev and E. N. Osin), the scale of positive and negative emotions measurement (E. N.
