Abstract:
Personality theorists have been attempting an integration of personality theories in recent years, believing that there are three ways to integrate personality theories: by using better research designs that take into account all the complex and relevant factors involved in individual reactions; by emphasizing internal processes more intensely and emphasizing how people change over time. Costa and McCrae’s Five-Factor model (NEO-PI-R) has impressive correspondences with the alternative Guilford-Zimmerman factors (ZKPQ) used in the present research. The present research aims to identify the common factors behind the variables: coping mechanisms and personality traits in the alternative five-factor model, but also to reduce the complexity and number of variables in the research. The group of subjects consists of 260 adults, non-clinical population from Romania, aged between 22-65 years, and as a consequence of the factorial analysis it emerged that the variables correlate at a significant threshold (p = 0.0001), but have a weak common variance (4.96% - 12.71%). However, they correlate strongly with the main factor (r = 0.312 – 0.811), with a number of 7 factors (3 factors of coping and the Big Five traits, 4 factors only of coping).
