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- Title
The Role of Personality in Adaptation to Stress Associated With Separation and Divorce: A Guide for Human Services Professionals and Mental Health Providers.
- Authors
Swisher, Thomas K.
- Abstract
The prevalence of marital separation and divorce among populations served by human services professionals and mental health providers is evident to those in the field. Marital disruption through separation and divorce appear to produce divergent reactions in adults ranging from negative to positive forms of adaptation. This study was designed to examine the potential roles played by personality traits based on the Five Factor Model of Personality as they relate to adaptation to stress among individuals experiencing a separation or divorce. The major findings are that individuals who rated high in openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness tended to exhibit better adaptation to divorce than those who were low in these domains, and individuals low in neuroticism and high in extraversion had better adaptation than those with an opposite pattern.
- Subjects
PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; SEPARATION (Law); DIVORCE; MARITAL disruption; MENTAL health services
- Publication
Journal of Human Services, 2015, Vol 35, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
2689-7059
- Publication type
Article