Reciprocal effects of neuroticism and life stress in adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stressful life experiences and personality can influence one another. Personality may contribute to the amount and type of stress individuals experience, which is referred to as a selection effect. Life stress may also impact one's personality, which is referred to as a socialization effect. It was hypothesized that neuroticism would predict increased chronic and episodic stress (selection effect) and that chronic and episodic stress would predict increased neuroticism (socialization effect).

Methods

The current study investigated selection and socialization effects of neuroticism and life stress over a three-year period in 627 adolescents. Life stress data were examined in terms of duration (chronic versus episodic) and type (interpersonal versus non-interpersona

SUBMITTER: Metts A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855753 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature