THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY COMPARED THE PERSONALITY TRAITS BETWEEN NORMAL AND APPLICANTS OF DIVORCE COUPLES IN BUSHEHR CITY IN YEAR 2015. THE RESEARCH METHOD WAS CAUSAL-COMPARATIVE. FOR THIS REASON, OF THE DIVORCE COUPLES 197 PERSON AND OF THE NORMAL COUPLES 199 PERSON SELECTED AVAILABLE SAMPLING METHOD. THE ASSESSMENT TOOLS INCLUDED A BIG- FIVE-FACTOR PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE (COSTA & MCCRAE, 1989) AND A CHARACTERISTICS OF MARRIAGE QUESTIONNAIRE (MADE BY RESEARCHER). FOR DATA ANALYSIS, MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (MANOVA) AT SIGNIFICANT P<0.05 WAS USED. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT BETWEEN DIVORCE AND NORMAL COUPLES IN TERMS OF PERSONALITY TRAITS NEUROTICISM, EXTROVERSION AND OPENNESS EXPERIENCE AT P<0.05 THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE.