Abstract

KRZEMIEN, Deisy. Women's personality styles and situational coping with aging. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2007, vol.41, n.2, pp. 139-150. ISSN 0034-9690.

This paper examines the relationship between the personality styles, coping styles and strategies in the elderly-women's critical situations. A 212-participants sample was interviewed on the critical events experienced at old age and later assessed using the MIPS and Brief-COPE questionnaires. Most of the coping styles and strategies were correlated with determined personality styles regarding the Millon's bipolar model of personality. The active coping and the emotional support were positively correlated with Extraversing, Modifying and Outgoing, and negatively correlated with Retiting, Accommodating and Introversing. The problem-focused coping was positively correlated with Intuition, Asserting and Controlling, and negatively correlated with Feeling, Hesitating and Yielding. The avoided coping was positively correlated with Preserving and negatively correlated with Enhancing. The personality styles play an important role in the use of female aging coping strategies.

Keywords : Personality styles; Coping strategies; Critical life-events; Old age; Elderly women.

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