The study purported to examine the relationship of certain positive personality attributes and behavioural tendencies, such as emotional stability and behavioral tendencies, relaxed-tense temperament, optimism and resilience, positive affectivity and spirituality with health status and recovery from illness in a sample of 58 male and female adults selected from urban population. The statistical analysis of the data obtained through psychometric tools revealed that all positive attributes excepting relaxed temperament, significantly negatively correlated with symptoms of ill-health. Optimism and resilience were found to be most dominant predictors of health status. Speed of recovery from illness was also found to be facilitated by positive affectivity, spirituality and optimism and resilience.