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. 2022 Apr 18;19(8):4918.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19084918.

Evaluation of Coping Strategies among Students with Type D Personality

Alexey N Sumin  1 , Ingrid Yu Prokashko  2 , Anna V Shcheglova  1
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Evaluation of Coping Strategies among Students with Type D Personality

Alexey N Sumin et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

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.

Keywords: case-control; coping strategies; medical students; negative affectivity; personality type D; social inhibition; stress.

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The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.

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Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. Performance efficacy of the personality. Type D parameters in the escape–avoidance strategy detecting. Notes: NA, negative affectivity; SI, social inhibition; zNA × zSI, effect of subscales interaction.
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