The role of the big five personality traits in coping strategies

Abstract

This study aims to explain the strategies used by administrator employees staff to cope with stress, as well as the relationship between the features of personality and coping strategies. The data were collected by means of (NEO-FFI)(Costa and McCrae ) and Coping (Echelle Toulousaine) (Pierre Tap), undertaken with a population of 80 administrator staff in university of Oran 1, comprised of executives, foremen, and performers. According to the descriptive results of (NEO-FFI) traits, ‘Conscientiousness’ was found to be the most popular personality trait among the employees ‘Conscientiousness’ was followed by ‘Agreeableness ’ and ‘ Extraversion’. The least preferred personality trait was ‘Openness’ and ‘ Neuroticism’ among the participants. Likewise, results showed that employees used first the strategies that centred on the ‘Informations’, afterwards the strategies that centerd on the ‘Action’, ‘Action’ was followed by the strategies that centred on the ‘Emotion’.

The statistical analyses allowed us to identify any significance rate of relation between features of personality and coping strategies. We detected just two significant rates of ‘Conscientiousness’ involving strategies that centred on the Informations and strategies that centred on Emotions.