Contribution of Personality Research to an Understanding of Stress and Aging

Costa, Paul T.; McCrae, Robert R.

doi:10.1300/j002v06n01_08

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“…The five‐factor model of personality is a hierarchical organization of personality traits in terms of five basic dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience (Costa & McCrae, 1983). Big Five Inventory (BFI; John, 1990; John, Donahue & Kentle, 1991) contains 44 items that are rated on the five‐point scale ranging from 1 – not agree at all to 5 – absolutely agree.…”

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“…Personality dimensions significantly predict coping with stress in general (Afshar, Roohafza, Keshteli, Mazaheri, Feizi & Adibi, 2015; Connor‐Smith & Flachsbart, 2007; Karimzade & Besharat, 2011) including the coping with the family stress (Thomas, Liu & Umberson, 2017) and parental stress (Rantanen, Tillemann, Metsäpelto, Kokko & Pulkkinen, 2015). Personality, including Big Five dimensions influences the coping mechanisms that individuals will choose to use in response to stressful events (Costa & McCrae, 1983). The Big Five dimensions and the General Factor of Personality are also essentially associated also with the well‐being and quality of life (González Gutiérrez, Jiménez, Hernández & Puente, 2005; McCrae & Costa, 1991; Musek, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2017; Musek & Avsec, 2006).…”

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Well‐being in parents of children with cancer: The impact of parental personality, coping, and the child's quality of life

Lazar

Musek

2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of parental personality, coping, and the child's quality of life on the well‐being of parents of children treated for cancer. The study included 99 parents (63 mothers and 36 fathers), 41 parents during child's intensive treatment, 23 parents whose child completed intensive treatment, and 25 parents of children who completed treatment at least five years ago. The results of multivariate study have confirmed the predictive role of parental personality (especially Neuroticism); emotion‐focused coping styles, and the child's quality of life (especially physical functioning) on parental well‐being. About 60% of the variance in parental well‐being can be attributed to the predictors. Assessing parental personality functioning and coping styles can help us identify those parents who are less emotionally stable, more prone to emotionally focused coping styles, and most likely to experience poorer well‐being. Improved assessment may contribute to the development of further psychological interventions.

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