Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the personality traits associated with stress vulnerability and to explore the interaction between personality traits and three stressful situations, i. e. interpersonal, physical danger, and social evaluation. 414 college students completed Y-G personality inventory as a measure of personality trait, and cognitive appraisal and coping questionnaire as a measure of stress vulnerability. The results revealed that personality traits such as inferiority feeling and thinking extraversion-introversion were associated with cognitive appraisal, and personality traits such as general activity, nervousness and ascendance with coping. However, the fact that the situational differences were remarkable suggested that the interaction between personality traits and stressful situations was important to identify stress vulnerability.
