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Jun Won Kim1, Hye-Kyung Lee, Kounseok Lee
1Department of Psychiatry, Gongju National Hospital, Gongju, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Objective:
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of temperament and character on resilience.
Methods:
A total of 4355 participants completed two questionnaires: the Conner-Davison Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised Short (TCI-RS). We used Pearson's correlations to evaluate the correlation between the dimensions of the TCI and the CD-RISC. To determine the most influential TCI dimension with respect to the CD-RISC, a backward multiple regression analysis was performed.
Results:
The resilience of both men and women was positively correlated with persistence, self-directedness, and cooperativeness. Conversely, harm avoidance was negatively correlated with resilience. In addition, reward dependence in men and self-transcendence in women were positively correlated with resilience. In the multiple regression analysis, persistence, self-directedness, and harm avoidance significantly predicted resilience after adjusting for age and gender.
Conclusion:
This results show that social support is affected by personality, which consists of both temperament and character. High persistence and self-directedness as well as low harm avoidance are found to contribute to a better stress response.
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