Title: Relationship among personality coping style and mental health of the laid-off workers
Abstract: Objective To study the relationship among personality traits, coping styles and mental health level. Methods175 laid-off workers from a state-owned corporation evaluated their mental health levels, personality traits and coping styles with Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90),NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ). ResultsLaid-off workers score were respectively,which were 142.46±49.32,1.75±0.69,1.76±0.70,1.66±0.66,1.54±0.62,1.61±0.64,1.32±0.55,1.38±0.50 higher in somatization, compulsive, depressive, anxious, hostile, phobic, psychotic factors and total of SCL-90 than norm. Compared with employed workers from the same corporation, laid-off workers had higher scores on somatization, depressive, anxious, hostile factors and total of SCL-90. Stepwise regression analyses were applied which took total scores and nine factors scores of SCL-90 as dependent variable. Neuroticism(N), extraversion(E), openness(O), passive coping and active coping were entered to regression equations respectively. ConclusionsMental health level of laid-off workers , was quite low significantly affected by neuroticism, openness and passive coping. [
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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