Relationship Between Personality Traits (Introversion-Extroversion) and Control Source with Coping Skills in Six-Grade Elementary School Students in Ghaemshahr City
Journal Title: European Journal of Behavioral Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits (introversion-extraversion) and the source of control with coping skills in sixth-grade elementary school students in Ghaemshahr city. This research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of method, was descriptive correlation research. The statistical population of this study consists of 3,379 six-grade elementary school students in Ghaemshahr city. Based on Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table, 346 students were selected by stratified random sampling method based on gender. To collect data, Eysenck Personality Inventory (1965) with 57 questions, Rutter’s Source Control Questionnaire (1966) with 29 questions and Lazarus and Volkman’s Coping Skills Questionnaire (1988) with 66 questions was used. The validity and reliability of the tools were confirmed. To analyze the data, Pearson correlation and multivariate regression were used. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the personality trait of introversion and the source of control with the coping skills of the emotional-focused, but there is a negative and significant relationship between the personality trait of extraversion and the coping skill of the emotional-focused. Also, there is a positive and significant relationship between the personality trait of extraversion and the problem-oriented coping skill, but there is a significant negative relationship between the control source and the problem-oriented coping skill, but there is no significant relationship between the personality trait of an introvert and the problem-oriented coping skill.
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Seyedeh Zhila Saber, Rajabali Mohammadzadeh
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.33422/EJBS.2018.06.73
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