Personality traits
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Date
2021
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
The present research aimed to explore the relationship among personality traits, optimism
and somatic symptom disorder among female university students during COVID-19. It was
hypothesized that there is likely to be relationship between personality traits, optimism and
somatic symptom disorder among female university students during COVID-19. The sample
consisted of N= 110 university female students drawn from Lahore using non-probability
sampling technique. Personality traits, optimism and somatic symptom disorder was measured
by The 24-item Brief HEXACO Inventory (BHI) (Vries, 2013), Life Orientation Test (LOT)
(Scheier et al., 1994), and Patient health questionnaire (PHQ-15) ( Kroenke, 2002) respectively.
Descriptive analysis was calculated. For further investigation, Pearson product moment
correlation analysis, regression analysis and mediation analysis were used. Results showed that
personality trait (emotionality) was found negatively significant with optimism and positively
significant with somatic symptom disorder. Optimism was found to be negatively significant
with somatic symptom disorder. Results of regression analysis showed that emotionality was a
significant predictor of somatic symptom disorder. Results of mediation analysis showed that
optimism was not significant mediator between emotionality and somatic symptom disorder. The
study implied that the psychological or mental issues as the results of pandemic states were
equally important as medical or economic problems and they were needed to be addressed