Personality and hassles among university students: a three-year longitudinal study

✍ Scribed by M. Vollrath

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 161 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0890-2070
• DOI: 10.1002/1099-0984(200005/06)14:3<199::aid-per372>3.0.co;2-b

✦ Synopsis

The present study had two goals. The ®rst was to investigate concurrent relations between the ®ve factors of personality and daily hassles experienced by university students. The second was to examine prospective relations between hassles and personality over three years in a two-wave panel design. A sample of 119 university students responded to questionnaires about daily hassles and personality (NEO-Five Factor Inventory) in the ®rst semester and seventh semester. Concurrently, Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness correlated with hassles, whereas Openness to Experience correlated little and Agreeableness not at all. Surprisingly, daily hassles were relatively stable over the three years, but this stability was not mainly due to personality in¯uences. Structural equation models showed that Neuroticism and Conscientiousness predicted two of ®ve hassle scales prospectively. There was also a prospective eect of daily hassles on later Neuroticism.