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Personality traits are among the strongest predictors of individual behavior, particularly extroversion and neuroticism. The current study examined two constructs that potentially mediate the relationship between personality factors (extroversion, neuroticism) and life satisfaction: humor styles and self-esteem. Path analysis was used to validate the proposed mediation model by testing the hypothesis that humor styles would mediate the relationship between personality factors and life satisfaction through self-esteem. The model was tested on a sample of 234 male and female students from the University of Benghazi. The study data were analyzed by AMOS software using the bootstrap method. The results showed the presence of statistically significant direct effects at a statistical significance level of 0.01 for the factors of extroversion and neuroticism individually on life satisfaction, as well as on humor styles and self-esteem. The study results also showed the presence of statistically significant direct effects at a statistical significance level of 0.01 for all mediating variables (humor styles and self-esteem) individually on life satisfaction. The study results also revealed the presence of total mediating effects of humor styles on the relationship between personality factors and life satisfaction through self-esteem, as the direct effect of the path of the extroversion factor on life satisfaction in the presence of mediating variables; Its value reached "= 0.05" which is not statistically significant at a statistical significance level of 0.05. The value of the indirect effect of the extroversion factor in the presence of the mediating variables reached"= 0.27", which is statistically significant at a statistical significance level of 0.01 and below. The results also showed that the direct effect of the neuroticism factor on life satisfaction, in the presence of mediating variables, reached a value of "= - 0.08" which is not statistically significant at a significance level of 0.05. The indirect effect of neuroticism, in the presence of mediating variables, reached a value of "= - 0.26" , which is statistically significant at a significance level of 0.01 or less. The results also showed that approximately %55 of the total variance in the life satisfaction variable is attributed to the mediation model.