Gender, Personality (Type “A” And “B”) and Emotional Stressful Experience

Abstract

Background: Stress is not merely something that makes one worry. It is fairly common. It is a synonym for life. We live in a time of great stress and anxiety, and it affects our lives and social well-being differently depending on one's gender and personality type.

Aim: To increase our knowledge of the role of stress in human life, social, and physical wellbeing and to create awareness on the harmful effect of the clinical condition of stress.

Setting: The study was performed  among  teachers in 18 public Secondary schools in Aguata and Anaocha Local Government Councils of Anambra State Nigeria.

Method: Jenkins Activity Survey Scale (Jas), Symptom Distress Checklist (Scl-90), and a socio-demographic questionnaire were used in this cross-sectional and descriptive study of 90 secondary school teachers.

Results: On the role of gender and personality types on emotional stressful experience, A personality has the greatest mean of 120.24; while type B personality has the total mean of 96.96 while on gender scale, the females have the mean of 109.67 and males have the mean of 107.13.

Conclusion: The aspect of personality type had a substantial impact on the manifestation of emotional stress. Gender, on the other hand, had no effect on the appearance of emotional stress. On the other side, it was discovered that gender and personality type interact in the emotional stress response to noxious life situations.