Osobowość a style radzenia sobie ze stresem menedżerów ochrony osób i mienia
Personality and styles of coping with stress of security service managers

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study was to present the relationship between personality and styles of coping with stress among managers working in the security service protecting people and property. Sixty managers working for a security company in different cities in Poland were surveyed for the study. Personality traits were measured by means of the Personality Inventory NEO-FFI by Costa and McCrae (Polish version by Zawadzki, Strelau, Szczepaniak and Sliwinska), whereas styles of coping with stress were measured using the CISS Questionnaire by N.S. Endler and J.D.A. Parker.The analysis of the relationship between the personality traits of the surveyed managers and their coping strategies in stressful situations yielded a positive correlation between Agreeableness and Task-focused Coping Style, and a negative correlation between Agreeableness and Emotion-focused Coping Style. In addition,Openness to Experience, and Conscientiousness of the managers correlated negatively with Emotion-focused Coping Style and Escape-Avoidance Coping Style.

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