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Archives of Psychiatry Research : An International Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, Vol. 55 No. 2, 2019.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.20471/dec. 2019.55.02.04

Comparing Relationship Between Personality Traits and Ways of Coping in Samples of Pregnant Women and Students

Krunoslav Matešić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-3568-2892 ; Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia
Sandra Nakić Radoš ; Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia
Krunoslav Kuna ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice

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Abstract

Previous studies showed that personality predicted coping with stress, especially in young samples and samples under stress. The goal of the study was to relate personality traits and ways of coping in a normal
population, in two different samples in specific stressful situations: students and pregnant women, and to compare the patterns of these relations. Undergraduate and graduate students (N = 186) and pregnant women (N = 51) anonymously filled out the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-FFI; measuring neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) and Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WOC; consisting of 8 subscales: Confrontive Coping, Distancing, Self-Controlling, Seeking Social Support, Accepting Responsibility, Escape-Avoidance, Planful Problem Solving, Positive Reappraisal). Correlational and regression analyses were performed. The results showed that personality traits were related to ways of coping in the sample of both students and pregnant women, with somewhat different patterns. The consistent finding in both samples was that neuroticism was positively associated with Accepting Responsibility and Escape-Avoidance, while consciousness was positively associated with Planful Problem Solving and negatively associated with Escape-Avoidance. Extraversion had a different role in coping in the sample of students and pregnant women, while openness to experience and agreeableness were not related to ways of coping. To conclude, neuroticism was more related to disengagement coping styles, while consciousness and extraversion were more related to engagement coping styles.

Keywords

personality traits; coping; pregnancy

Hrčak ID:

228433

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/228433

Publication date:

16.12.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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