Personality and coping in life challenge narratives |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Universitat Ramon Llull, ESADE, Spain;2. Harvard University, United States;3. University of Virginia, United States;1. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States;2. McGill University, Montreal, Canada;1. DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;2. Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA), Frankfurt am Main, Germany;3. Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany;4. Institute of Medical Psychology at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | BackgroundSelf-reported personality traits are known to correlate with self-reported coping strategies. However, these correlations may be inflated by common method variance. The current study examined personality traits and coping strategies in autobiographical narratives.MethodIn open-ended interviews, 122 late-midlife participants described their single greatest life challenge. Participants’ responses were content coded for various coping strategies. We examined correlations between narrated coping strategies and self-reported personality traits assessed by the NEO-Five Factor Inventory.ResultsExtraversion was associated with narrated engagement coping. Neuroticism was associated with narrated disengagement coping. A trend suggested that conscientiousness was negatively associated with narrated disengagement coping. Surprisingly, openness was negatively associated with narrated problem-solving.ConclusionsThe current study replicates and extends the personality and coping literature into the domain of life narrative. Associations between extraversion, neuroticism, and coping styles appear to be robust outside the context of self-report coping questionnaires. |
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| Keywords: | Life stress Coping Personality traits Narrative identity Life challenges Five Factor Model |
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