Legătura copingului cu factorii de personalitate Big Five

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).