Personality traits and changes in depression symptoms in female university students.

Autor/inn/en	Bobic, Jasminka; Koscec Bjelajac, Adrijana; Bakotic, Marija; Macan, Jelena
Titel	Personality traits and changes in depression symptoms in female university students. Paralleltitel: Osebnostne lastnosti in spremembe simptomov depresije pri studentkah.
Quelle	In: CEPS journal, 11 (2021) 4, S. 169-187Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2232-2647
DOI	10.25656/01:23848 10.26529/cepsj.756
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-238489
Schlagwörter	Fragebogen; Depression; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Psychische Gesundheit; Selbstwahrnehmung; Persönlichkeitstest; Frau; Stress; Symptom; Regressionsanalyse; Studentin; Kroatien
Abstract	The present study aimed to investigate the course of symptoms of depression in female university students over a four-year period, while also exploring the predictive value of four personality traits with regard to symptoms of depression. The sample comprised 74 female first-year university students. Symptoms of depression were assessed using the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale and were collected twice over a four-year interval, while the personality traits of extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism and lie tendencies were assessed by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire only at the baseline. The results revealed that after a four-year period the depression symptoms increased in intensity/frequency on 10 out of 20 items as well as in the summary score, and decreased only in diurnal variations, which wasfavourable outcome. Multiple regression analysis indicated that out of the four personality traits only neuroticism was a significant predictor of the summary depression score four years later. This means that young female students with higher scores in neuroticism, although still in the normal or average range, would very probably have a more pronounced and less well-regulated emotional response to a stressful period of their university education. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2022/2