Personality and stress coping

Using different tests from those employed in the two original studies, this research attempted to reproduce the relationships noted between the Big Five and stress-coping approaches [Costa Jr., P.T., Somerfield, M.R., & McCrae, R.R. (1996). Personality and coping: a reconceptualization. In M. Zeidner, & N.S. Endler, Handbook of coping: theory, research, applications. New York: Wiley], and the pattern of happiness scores for Happy, Labile, Stable and Unhappy groups found by Brebner [ Brebner, J. (1998). Happiness and personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 25, 279–296]. To a substantial degree these results reproduce the original findings. Four out of six predictions for scores on the Big Five and stress coping were supported. The same order for happiness scores as Brebner found was again obtained though not all of the paired comparisons between groups were significant.