Giants with feet of clay: perfectionism, type A behavior, emotional stability, and gender as predictors of university students’ mental health

Autor: Sara Guidotti, Alice Fiduccia, Carlo Pruneti
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Psychology, Society & Education, Vol 16, Iss 3 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1989-709X
Popis: The growing level of psychopathological symptoms among tertiary students is becoming a difficult phenomenon for institutions to manage. The present study aimed to analyze the complex associations of anxiety and somatization with predisposing personality traits, such as perfectionism, neuroticism, and type A behavior. The 248 university students (Mage = 24.4, SD = 5.45) recruited completed a state (the Symptom Questionnaire), stress (the P Stress Questionnaire), and personality (Cattell’s 16-Personality Factors Questionnaire) questionnaire. The results validated that perfectionism/self-control negatively predicted anxiety (β = -0.49, p
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