International Journal of Education and Psychological Research

(Print and Online Peer Reviewed Journal)


Print - ISSN: 2349 - 0853
e - ISSN: 2279 - 0179

VOLUME 3 - ISSUE 1

(March 2014)

Role of Personality Factors in Experiencing Psychological Distress among Adolescents


Authors: [1]Dr. Fareeda Shaheen [2] Dr. Musaddiq Jahan [3] Dr. Sayeeda Shaheen

Pages: 1-7

Abstract:

Purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of personality factors in experiencing psychological distress among adolescents. The sample comprised of 200 (100 male and 100 female) students from senior secondary school of Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh. The Neo Five Factor Inventory (Costa and Mc Crare, 1992) was used for measuring personality factors and PGI Health questionnaire N-1 (Werma, Wig and Prashad1985) was used for measuring psychological distress. Ttest and product-moment correlation was used for analyzing the data. Result showed that there was significant positive correlation between neuroticism dimension of personality and psychological distress. Result also showed that there was significant negative correlation between others four dimensions of personality (i.e. Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness) and psychological distress. In gender differences, it was found that female students scored significantly higher on neuroticism dimension of personality in comparison to male students. It was also found that male students scored significantly higher on other four dimensions of personality factor (i.e. Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness) as compared to female students. Further it was also found that female students scored significantly higher on psychological distress in comparison to male students.