بررسي رابطه ميان پنج عامل بزرگ شخصيت ، سبك هاي مقابله اي و سلامت رواني در دانشجويان كارشناسي

A Study of the Relationship between the Big Five Factors of Personality,Coping Styles and Mental Health in Undergraduate Students

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the big five factors of personality, coping styles and mental health. On a random sample of 235 subjects, the abbreviated version of five factors inventory, the coping inventory for stressful situations and the general health questionnaire were applied. The relations between personality traits, coping styles and mental health were studied using correlation and regression analysis. The results showed that 1)there is a significant relationship between the neuroticism, openness and extroversion factors of personality and mental health, while there is no significant relationship between the conscientiousness and agreeableness factors of personality and mental health; 2)there is a significant relationship between the task- oriented and emotion-oriented coping styles and mental heath, while there is no significant relationship between the avoidance-oriented coping style and mental health; 3)there is a positive significant relationship between openness, conscientiousness, extroversion and agreeableness factors and the task-oriented coping style, while there is a positive significant relationship between neuroticism and the emotion-oriented coping style and a negative significant relationship between the former and the task-oriented coping style; and 4)from among coping styles, only two levels and from among the big five factors of personality, only one level contribute to the prediction of mental health. Eventually, the study indicates that Ssʹ personality traits and coping styles show a significant correlation with their mental health.