This study has the purpose to investigate the relationships between personality type, playfulness and stress coping. The subjects of this study were 214 female students who are enrolled in one private university and one adult & continuing education in...
This study has the purpose to investigate the relationships between personality type, playfulness and stress coping. The subjects of this study were 214 female students who are enrolled in one private university and one adult & continuing education institute. The Korean-version MBTI, the modified PSA(Playfulness Scale for Adults), and the stress coping style test were used. The statistical data were analyzed by frequencies, percentiles, 1-test, regression analyses. The results of this study were as follows: 1. The preference indices of MBTI that most of students had a higher prevalence were I, S,T, J. The playfulness of subjects was highest in the `fun-1oving` variable and the stress coping of subjects was highest in the `hopeful thinking coping` variable. 2. The preference indices were related to playfulness. B group had the higher enjoying silliness, the higher sense of humor, the higher fun-loving, the higher infornalness than I group. N group had the higher fun-loving than S group. F group had the higher sense of humor than T group. p group had the higher enjoying silliness than J pup. And the `enjoying silliness` was influenced by E-I and S-N. The most significant factor to predict the` sense of humor` was E-L. The `fun-loving` was influenced by E-1, T-F, and S-N. 3. the more playful subjects significantly pursued social support coping.