Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between personality traits and subjective stress symptoms in persons who underwent stress check-ups at our healthcare center. In this study, we called stress check-ups “Stress-Dock”.
Methods: The subjects were 46 adults (26 men and 20 women) who underwent stress check-ups between April 2009 and March 2011. Questionnaires used were the Yatabe-Guilford Personality Inventory(YG) and the Cornell Medical Index-Health Questionnaire(CMI). In this study, we defined the subjective symptoms in CMI used for neurosis screening as subjective stress symptoms.
Results: Emotional instability personality and obedience personality were significantly correlated with all subjective stress symptoms except cardio-vascular system-related symptoms. Aggressiveness was significantly correlated with sensitivity and anger. There were significant correlations between subjectivity and all subjective stress symptoms. Rhathymia was not significantly correlated with any subjective stress symptom.
Conclusion: Our study revealed that the manifestation of subjective stress symptoms differed with personality traits. Inferiority complex, over-adaptation and type A personality were focused on because they are considered to be personality traits conducive to stress. The findings of the present study should help improve the accuracy of stress check-ups as well as stress reports to examinees.
