Personality traits as predictors of depression, anxiety, and stress with secondary school students of final years

Abstract

The main aim of this research is to examine the predictive power of personality traits, as defined by the Big five model of personality in expressing depression, anxiety, and stress with secondary school students of final years. The research was conducted on a sample of 977 secondary school students in the third and fourth grade from ten secondary schools in Niš. The gender structure of the sample was as follows: 397 boys and 607 girls. The following instruments were used in the research: Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21; Lovibond and Lovibond, 1995), Big Five Inventory-BFI (John, Donahue and Kentle, 1991). The results showed that the regression model constructed by personal traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to experience) explain 26% of the criterion variable of Anxiety. The largest individual contribution to

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“…Neuroticism positively correlated with stress, anxiety and depression. These results were also found by Vujičić and Ranđelović (2017) and Mostafaei et al (2019), and similar results were reported by other studies (Brailovskaia & Margraf, 2016;Ervasti et al, 2019;Gramstad et al, 2013;Milić et al, 2019;Mousavi & Essazadegan, 2016;Pereira-Morales et al, 2019;Seto et al, 2019;Sørengaard et al, 2019). In contrast, (A) negatively correlated with stress, anxiety and depression.…”

“…Mousavi and Essazadegan (2016) found that anxiety negatively correlated with conscientiousness and depression negatively correlated with extraversion. However, in the study by Vujičić and Ranđelović (2017) extraversion negatively influenced anxiety, and conscientiousness negatively predicts anxiety and depression. Morevover, the correlation between consciousness and depression was found previously by different studies (Seto et al, 2019;Vujičić & Ranđelović, 2017).…”

“…However, in the study by Vujičić and Ranđelović (2017) extraversion negatively influenced anxiety, and conscientiousness negatively predicts anxiety and depression. Morevover, the correlation between consciousness and depression was found previously by different studies (Seto et al, 2019;Vujičić & Ranđelović, 2017). Furthermore, extraversion was positively correlated with all three (stress, anxiety and depression) in the study by Brailovskaia and Margraf (2016) and Gramstad et al (2013) also found that extraversion protected against symptoms of depression.…”

“…Furthermore, extraversion was positively correlated with all three (stress, anxiety and depression) in the study by Brailovskaia and Margraf (2016) and Gramstad et al (2013) also found that extraversion protected against symptoms of depression. No correlations were found for openness as in the study of Vujičić and Ranđelović (2017). Nevertheless, Mousavi and Essazadegan (2016) found that anxiety negatively correlated with openness.…”

“…These correlations were reported by https: //doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.05.17 Corresponding Author: Ana Moreno Selection and peer-review under 157 Mostafaei et al (2019). In the study by Vujičić and Ranđelović (2017) it was found the same results but it was not found the stress correlation. However, Ervasti et al (2019) found that agreeableness negatively correlated to self-reported stress.…”