TITLE:
The Relationship between Personality Traits and Stress Levels in Children
AUTHORS:
Jéssica Elandra Bedin, Mariane Luiza Mattjie, Vinícius Renato Thomé Ferreira, Denice Bortolin Baseggio
KEYWORDS:
Personality Trait, Stress, Psychological Assessment
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.6,
May
5,
2015
ABSTRACT: This study assessed the relationship
between the personality traits and stress levels in children. The Scale of
Children Personality Traits and the Scale of Infant Stress were administered.
The personality trait dimensions refer to neuroticism, psychoticism,
extroversion and sociability, and the stress dimensions refer to levels of
stress resistance, alertness, near-exhaustion and exhaustion and the stress
reaction types regarding the psychological, psychological with depressing component,
psychophysiological and physic types. Fifty children of both genders were
assessed; all of them studied in classes from the first to the fourth grades of
an elementary public school. The data indicate moderate and positive
correlations between the neuroticism and stress levels traits, being mainly
evidenced in psychological reactions. On the other hand, the traits
psychoticism, ex-troversion and sociability did not present significant
correlations with the sample stress levels.