Physical health or mental health problems in relations to personality and temperament

Pages: 1188-1192
Jangjeet and Hardeep Lal Joshi (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana)
C. P. Khokhar (Department of Psychology, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand)

The present study was designed to investigate physical health or mental health problems a relationship with personality and temperament. In order to meet the research objectives, a representative sample of 200 young adults within the age range of 20 to 25 years is drawn from different department of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, using a random sampling method. All the selected participant was administered with the help of NEO five factor Inventory S form, Cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire (CMI) and Formal Characteristics of Behaviors Temperament Inventory (FCB-TI). The obtained data was analyzed by using Pearson’s correlation and Stepwise Multiple Regression. Results revealed that neuroticism shows positive correlation with physical health or mental health problems. Agreeableness found negatively related with mental health problems. And conscientiousness shows negatively correlations with physical health and mental health problems. In case of temperament, perseverance shows positive correlation with mental health problems, emotional reactivity found positively correlated with physical health and mental health problems. Further neuroticism or emotional reactivity both found predictors of physical health or mental health problems.