A study on association of personality traits and employees' stress evaluation

The association of employees' stress evaluation and their personality traits was studied. Ss (N=4 745) of a group corporation evaluated their stressors, stress levels and personality traits with a self-developed Social Stressor Questionnaire and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). Employees' overall stress was correlated significantly with the personality dimensions of neuroticism (N), extraversion (E), agreeableness (A), and conscientiousness (C). High-stress Ss scored higher on N & C and lower on E & A than the low-stress ones. Evaluations of 6 out of 10 types of social stressors are affected by one or some of personality traits