Stress Reactivity: Five-Factor Representation of a Psychobiological Typology

Abstract

A typology contrasting stress reactive individuals with stress resistant individuals has been proposed based on studies of children and nonhuman primates. The present study tested for these hypothesized types in U.S. Navy recruits who completed the NEO Personality Inventory. Hierarchical agglomerative and partitioning cluster analyses were conducted in 10 samples of U.S. Navy recruits (n = 331-335). Replicability of clusters across subsamples was a primary criterion for choosing between alternative cluster solutions. Applying this criterion, up to five clusters could be identified reliably. The five-factor personality profiles for two types in the five-cluster solution approximated a priori predictions about reactive and resistant profiles well enough to indicate a reactivity typology is a viable model of personality differences in this population. Personality, Stress, Typology, Military recruits, Cluster analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 26, 1991
Accession Number
ADA252715

Entities

People

  • Ross R. Vickers

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Science
  • Inventory
  • Minority Groups
  • Personality
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Reactivities
  • Social Psychology
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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