TITLE:
Examination of the Relationship between Stress Coping and Personality for University Students
AUTHORS:
Kazuki Kimura, Chieko Kato, Yshiomi Otsuka, Koichiro Aoki
KEYWORDS:
Stress Coping, Personality, University Student, Stress
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.8,
August
26,
2020
ABSTRACT: In Japan, 50% of the population is notably stressed, which is expressed as the
phrase “stress society”. Prevention and care for stressful situations through stress management are social issues for Japanese society. It is important to understand
individual psychological traits for dealing with individual stress. Therefore,
this study conducted a survey on college students to clarify relationships
between their personalities and types of stress coping based on Lazarus’s
theory. The participants were asked to answer questionnaires about their
personalities (TEG II and Big Five) and types of stress coping (SCI). Based on
the answers about stress coping, they were divided into emotional or cognitive
strategy dominant groups. A canonical correlation analysis was performed scores
of the questionnaires in order to quantify the relationships between their
personality traits and types of stress coping. The results of the analysis
showed that specific personalities had relations to types of stress coping. In
addition, there were different relationships between personality and stress
coping depending on whether the participants were in the emotional or cognitive
strategy dominant groups.