Dissertation topic: Does personality type (extroverted/introverted) affect perceived stress levels in female students

PERSONALITY AND STRESS.
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Personality and Stress.
The extrovert female students often are always social and confident, while their introvert colleagues are shy. Introverted and extroverted have different ways of coping, to satisfy their needs (Burger, 2000). This essay is to determine whether personality influences perceived stress levels in female students.
Bosworth, Feaganes, Vitaliano, Mark, and Siegler (2001), advocates that extroverts have a negative correlation with passive and avoidance coping strategies. On the other hand, their introvert colleagues have passive coping policies that are not favorable for solving a situation (Baoyong, 2000). Therefore, there exists a relationship between introversion and passive coping (Bradely, 1996).
The coping strategies among the introvert female students focus on emotions, which lowers personal stress whereby, the extrovert student has a positive correlation with the adaptive coping strategies. These strategies are flexible and conducive to solving a problem. They are found to have active adapting methods (Baoyong, 2000).
The extrovert female students tend to be aggressive when communicating, while their introvert fellows have low aggression in communication (Blair, 2000). Extroverts apart from being aggressive, they tend to be tolerant during an argument as compared to the introverts who lacks tolerance for discussion (McCroskey & Heisel, 2001). Therefore, aggression and extroverts relate to each other. Hence the more aggressive students use active coping strategies, while students with less aggression use passive coping methods.

Stowell, Kiecolt, and Glaser (2001) argue that these coping strategies affect the stress levels in an individual. Therefore, higher stress levels cause active coping mechanisms, while lower levels influence passive coping strategies.
However, the introverts would not be able to cope up with high-stress levels since they would apply passive mechanisms while the extroverts would be able to adopt in the highly stressful situation because they would employ the active coping strategy. On the other hand under low stressful situations, introverts would adapt averagely as compared to the extroverts who would have little coping scores since they are under-stimulated. Therefore personality affects the perceived stress situations.
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