An Investigation of Interpersonal Problem Solving in University Students in Terms of Personality Traits, Resilience and Hop

Abstract

This study's goal is to examine the relationship between interpersonal problem-solving approaches and personality traits, resilience, and hope levels in university students. Four hundred and one [234 (58.4%) female, 167 (41.6%) male] university students participated in the study. The data were collected using the Interpersonal Problem Solving Inventory, Big Five Inventory, Brief Resilience Scale, and Dispositional Hope Scale. In the study, the relationship between the variables was examined by correlation analysis. Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to determine the predictability of personality traits, resilience, and hope on interpersonal problem-solving approaches. As a result of the study, a significant positive relationship was identified between approaching problems in a negative way, the lack of selfconfidence, and unwillingness to take responsibility and neuroticism, while a significant negative relationship was found between extraversion, agreeableness, responsibility, openness to experiences, resilience, and hope. On the other hand, a significant negative relationship was observed between constructive problem solving and the insistent-persevering approach and neuroticism, while a significant positive relationship was found between extraversion, agreeableness, responsibility, openness to experiences, resilience, and hope. Furthermore, it was determined that neuroticism and resilience significantly explain approaching problems in a negative way; agreeableness, responsibility, openness to experiences, and hope significantly explain constructive problem solving; agreeableness, responsibility, and hope significantly explain the lack of self-confidence; the personality traits of neuroticism and agreeableness significantly explain unwillingness to take responsibility; and agreeableness, openness to experiences, and hope significantly explain the insistent-persevering approach.

Social Problem-Solving in Freshmen: The Role of Emotional Stability, Secure Attachment, Communication Skill, and Self-Esteem

“…When talking about neuroticism, individuals who tend to be neurotic, feel easily tense, anxious, uneasy, and anxious will certainly develop poor social problem-solving. The worse the emotional stability or the more neurotic the individual is, the more difficult it will be for the individual to develop good social problem-solving (Arslan, 2016;Cam & Alkal, 2020;Koruklu, 2015).…”

“…Individuals with neurotic tendencies will appear less confident in problem-solving with the help of others (Cam & Alkal, 2020). Individuals like this feel unsure if their problems will be helped by others' help, experience reduced expectations, and become easily worried when faced with situations where they have to solve problems (Cam & Alkal, 2020;D'Zurilla & Chang, 1995;Walker, Chang, & Hirsch, 2017). Individuals with this neurotic tendency also find it difficult to trust others, so they often close themselves off from others when they have problems or refuse help from others.…”

“…This happens because personality traits affect how individuals behave, in which individuals with different personality traits will use different problem-solving strategies (Park & Antonioni, 2007). A significant positive relationship is found between neuroticism which negatively approaches problems, lack of self-confidence, and reluctance to take responsibility (Cam & Alkal, 2020). Emotional stability is a negative form of neuroticism, which means emotional instability (Kalokerinos et al, 2020;Widiger & Oltmanns, 2017).…”

Hope for success as a mediator between Big Five personality traits and achievement goal orientation among high performance and recreational athletes

“…There was no mediation effect obtained for hope for success in the relationship between agreeableness and task orientation of athletes. This relationship, however, has hardly been conclusive in the past, as in fact only some of the researchers cited earlier obtained correlations of agreeableness with hope [ 26 – 28 ]. Besides, possibly, the impact of agreeableness on functioning in sport is lower than that of the other qualities.…”

“…Alongside these factors, however, emphasis can also be placed on the impact of personality traits acting as a specific developmental context interacting with the mentioned factors. Although there are some differences in the results of the studies [26][27][28][29][30], on the whole it can be stated that conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion, openness, and agreeableness are positively related with hope.…”