Gender, Personality (Type “A” And “B”) and Emotional Stressful Experience | Chapter 06 | New Horizons in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 4

 Background: Stress is more than just a source of anxiety. It's quite common. It's a euphemism for life. We live in a time of high tension and worry, which has varying effects on people's lives and social well-being depending on their gender and personality type.

Aim: To improve our understanding of the role of stress in human life, social, and physical well-being, as well as to raise awareness of the detrimental effects of stress as a clinical disease.

The survey was conducted among teachers in 18 public secondary schools in the Anambra State Local Government Councils of Aguata and Anaocha.

In this cross-sectional and descriptive study of 90 secondary school teachers, the Jenkins Activity Survey Scale (Jas), the Symptom Distress Checklist (Scl-90), and a socio-demographic questionnaire were employed.

Results: When it comes to the impact of gender and personality types on emotional stressful experiences, type A personality has the highest mean of 120.24; type B personality has the lowest total mean of 96.96; and when it comes to gender, females have a mean of 109.67 and males have a mean of 107.13.

Conclusion: Personality type had a significant influence on the expression of emotional stress. Gender, on the other hand, had no bearing on how emotional stress manifested itself. Gender and personality type, on the other hand, were discovered to interact in the emotional stress response to noxious life conditions.

Author(S) Details

Ofojebe Chukwuma Philip
Department of Psychology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.

Okoli Paul Chibuike
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Enugu State, University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.

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