Investigation Of Personality Variables And Stress Coping Resources In University Students

The research assessed the General Big Five personality variables and the Coping Resources Inventory for Stress (short form) in 804 undergraduates.Conclusion of this research: 1). There are no significant difference in gender and major as measured by general big five scale. Students from the urban area and grade 1 had significant high score than students from the rural area and grade 2 and grade 4 in Openness. Students from the rural area and not single child had high score in Conscientiousness. Students in grade 1 had significant high score in Agreeableness. 2). The assessment of six factors of CRIS-SF in undergraduate shows that male had high score in Confidence, female had high score in Social Support. In the Social Support dimensionality, single child, grade1 and grade 4 students had significant high score when compared with others. Female had high score in Self-Directedness and the student whose major is arts had high score in Tension Control and Structuring. In the Physical Health dimensionality, grade 1 and grade 4 students had signification high score. 3). Confidence, Social Support, Tension Control, Physical Health, Self-Directedness and Structuring factors in the coping resources of stress had high subtractive correlation with Neuroticism and Openness, and had high correlation with Extraversion, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness in personality.