Key result
Type D personality in medical students was associated with more frequent use of the escape-avoidance coping strategy and less frequent use of accepting responsibility and self-controlling strategies.
Why the study?
Type D personality may predispose to stress and higher burnout levels, contributing to disease symptoms, motivating an examination of coping strategies in young healthy individuals.
Are coping strategies different in young healthy medical students with Type D personality compared to those without?
Cross-Sectional (n=98)
Are coping strategies different in young healthy medical students with Type D personality compared to those without?
Type D personality in medical students is associated with maladaptive coping strategies such as escape-avoidance.
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Hypothesis-generating in healthy students; leaves open whether coping interventions improve long-term well-being.
OBJECTIVE: Personality type D may be associated with a predisposition to develop stress under external adverse influences, for example, in the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, type D personality is associated with higher burnout levels; thus, it may contribute to the development of diseases symptoms. The current study was designed to examine the coping strategies in young healthy persons with personality type D. METHODS: The study included 98 medical students, with 30 being males. The participants completed questionnaires to identify personality type D (DS-14) and the coping strategies. Depending on the results of the DS-14 questionnaire, four subgroups were distinguished with different levels of points on the NA and SI subscales. RESULTS: For persons with type D personality, the escape-avoidance strategy was used more often, the accepting responsibility and self-controlling strategies were less common compared with non-type-D individuals. When type D was adjusted for the NA and SI subscales, the correlation remained only with escape-avoidance strategy. We did not find a synergistic effect of the NA and SI subscales in regard to coping. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated a link between personality type D and maladaptive coping strategies. The predominance of the maladaptive coping strategy in type D is a possible point of application for psychosocial training in such individuals that requires further research.
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Сумин et al. (2022) conducted a cross-sectional in Healthy medical students (n=98). Type D personality vs. Non-type-D individuals was evaluated on Coping strategies. Type D personality in medical students was associated with more frequent use of the escape-avoidance coping strategy and less frequent use of accepting responsibility and self-controlling strategies.
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