Sociotropic Personality Research Articles

The Mediating Role of Irrational Beliefs in the Relationship between Anger and Sociotropic Personality Traits in Nursing Students

The Mediating Role of Irrational Beliefs in the Relationship between Anger and Sociotropic Personality Traits in Nursing Students

Emotional intelligence and personality characteristics of psychiatric nurses and their situations of exposure to violence.

To examine the relationship between the emotional intelligence and sociotropic-autonomic personality characteristics of nurses working in psychiatry clinics and their exposure to violence. In this study, 103 nurses working in a mental health community hospital in Turkey were surveyed. The research data were collected using the Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Scale, the Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale, and the Personal Information Form. A statistically significant relationship was determined between the "awareness of emotions" and the frequency of physical violence that was exposed; "management of emotions" and the number of psychological violence that was exposed; sociotropic personality characteristics; and the number of violent incidents. It may be advisable to include issues such as awareness and management of emotions, the importance of autonomous personality traits in violence prevention education programs.

Kişilik Özelliklerinin Bir Girişimcilik Boyutu Olan Denetim Odağı Üzerindeki Etkisi

The purpose of present research is to investigate the impact of personality traits on the locus of control of undergraduates. The research was conducted on 581 undergraduates in Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University. For data collection Sahin and colleagues' (1993) sociotropy-autonomy scale, and Spectors' (1988) locus of control scale were used. The research hypotheses were tested using Pearson Correlation, Simple Linear Regression, and Multiple Regression Analysis. As a result, it was found that autonomous personality trait was a predictor of internal locus of control. In addition, personal success had a positive impact on internal locus of control which is subdimension of locus of control. It was determined that sociotropic personality trait was a predictor of external locus of control. Eventually it was observed that the subdimensions of sociotropic personal trait, disapproval and seperation anxiety had an impact on external locus of control.

İç Hastalıkları ve Cerrahi Servislerinde Çalışan Hemşirelerin Empatik Becerileri ve Otonomi Düzeylerinin Değerlendirilmesi

Objective: This study evaluated the empathic skills and autonomy levels of nurses working in medical and surgery wards, and the factors associated with those skills. Material and Methods: This was descriptive research. A random sample of nurses working in the medical and surgery wards, intensive care unit, and emergency clinics of a private hospital in Istanbul (n= 202) voluntarily completed the survey form. The data were collected using Empathic Skill Scale and Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale. Results: The mean age of sample was 26.78±5.27, and most were graduates from vocational high school of health sciences. The sample had 0-3 years' experience in the profession and worked in surgery wards. Empathic communication skills, and autonomous and sociotropic personality traits of nurses working in medical and surgery wards, intensive care unit, and emergency clinics were moderate. The empathic skill levels of nurses were higher for nurses who are female, who had high education levels, who worked as responsible nurses, who worked in surgery wards, who followed professional publications, and who attended empathy trainings. Conclusion: It is recommended that specialist nurses be preferred as unit manager nurses and plan the empathy training courses for nurses after graduation.

Sociotropic personality traits positively correlate with the severity of social anxiety

Sociotropy can be seen as the opposite of autonomy, as those with high levels of sociotropy are overly concerned with interpersonal relationships, whereas those with high levels of autonomy are mostly concerned with independence and do not prioritise social interactions and how they are evaluated by others. Both of these personality dimensions may be associated with increased susceptibility for depression, first suggested in 1999.

Sociotropic or Autonomous Personality and Problem Solving in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

This study investigated the sociotropic and autonomous personality characteristics and perceived problem solving ability of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, and their relationship with quality of life. The study included 14 CAPD patients and 54 healthy volunteers. Sociotropy and autonomy scores were significantly higher in CAPD patients than in the healthy control group. Among CAPD patients, there was a significant correlation between problem solving and serum phosphate, parathormone levels and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. There was a negative correlation between total dialysis time and sociotropy in CAPD patients, and a positive correlation between general health/pain perception and autonomy. Appropriate medical management, time on dialysis and positive self-perception of health were correlated with better problem solving ability and higher autonomous but lower sociotropic personality styles.

The boundaries between attachment and personality: Localized versus generalized effects in daily social interaction

A diary study examined the effects of romantic attachment (avoidance, anxiety) and autonomous and sociotropic personality on levels of sociability within social interactions across relational contexts ( N = 89 undergraduates). As expected, the effects of domain-specific romantic attachment avoidance and anxiety on sociability were localized to social interactions with romantic partners, whereas the effects of autonomy and sociotropy were generalized across relational contexts (i.e., across social interactions with romantic partners, family members, friends, and acquaintances/others). Furthermore, the effects of both autonomy and sociotropy on sociability were partially mediated by domain-specific attachment in domain-congruent (romantic) but not domain-incongruent (non-romantic) relational contexts: romantic avoidance partially mediated the effects of autonomy on sociability toward romantic partners, whereas romantic anxiety partially mediated the effects of sociotropy. These results suggest that autonomy and sociotropy summarize global regularities in relational responding that correspond to those described by attachment avoidance and anxiety—although (unlike attachment) they do so across relational contexts. Domain-specific attachment representations, in contrast, govern responding within context-congruent domains and act as a mechanism through which personality guides social interaction within these domains.

Personality styles in patients with fibromyalgia, major depression and healthy controls

BackgroundThe fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is suggested to be a manifestation of depression or affective spectrum disorder. We measured the cognitive style of patients with FMS to assess personality styles in 44 patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) by comparing them with 43 patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and 41 healthy controls (HC).MethodsPersonality styles were measured by the Sociotropy and Autonomy Scale (SAS) and the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS). The Structured Clinical interview for DSM Axis I was applied to Axis I disorders, while the Beck Depression Inventory was used to measure depression severity.ResultsPatients with FMS in general have a sociotropic personality style similar to patients with MDD, and different from HC, but FMS patients without a lifetime history of MDD had a cognitive personality style different from patients with MDD and similar to HC.ConclusionThese findings suggest that a depressotypic personality style is related to depressive disorder, but not to FMS.

Sociotropic and Autonomous Personality and Stressful Life Events as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in the Postpartum Period

Measures of stressful life events, sociotropic and autonomous personality, and depressive symptoms were completed by 76 women in the last trimester of pregnancy and 8-weeks postpartum. During pregnancy, women with strong sociotropic or autonomous personality style, or high levels of negative life events (or perceived loss resulting from events) in sociotropic or autonomous domains, tended to report higher levels of depressive symptoms. Cross-sectionally, there was some support for the cognitive diathesis-stress model, but not a congruency model, of depression. Longitudinal results indicated that high levels of sociotropic personality style, sociotropic loss, or autonomous loss resulting from events significantly predicted increases in depressive symptoms from pregnancy to the postpartum period. The interaction between personality styles and life events did not predict depressive symptoms longitudinally, either congruently or incongruently. Negative automatic thoughts mediated the direct effects of personality and life events upon depressive symptoms.

Gender differences in the manifestation of sociotropy and autonomy personality traits

Beck (1983) proposed that two personality dimensions––sociotropy and automony––confer vulnerability to the onset of depressive episodes. Although gender differences are posited, with women more likely to manifest sociotropic personality traits than men, and men more likely to display autonomous personality traits than women ( Beck, 1983), there has been virtually no specific attention directed to gender differences in these personality traits and their relation to depression. In this study, the personality profiles of sociotropic and autonomous men and women, measured by the Revised Personal Style Inventory (PSI-II, Robins et al., 1994) were compared by using the domains and facets of the five-factor model of personality (FFM; Costa & McCrae, 1992) in a sample of patients with major depression (118 men, 202 women). A gender difference emerged from the pattern of correlations between PSI-II sociotropy and autonomy and the domains and facets of the Five-Factor Model of personality (FFM), suggesting that sociotropy and autonomy can signify different things for depressed men and women.

Gender differences in the manifestation of sociotropy and autonomy personality traits

Beck (1983) proposed that two personality dimensions––sociotropy and automony––confer vulnerability to the onset of depressive episodes. Although gender differences are posited, with women more likely to manifest sociotropic personality traits than men, and men more likely to display autonomous personality traits than women (Beck, 1983), there has been virtually no specific attention directed to gender differences in these personality traits and their relation to depression. In this study, the personality profiles of sociotropic and autonomous men and women, measured by the Revised Personal Style Inventory (PSI-II, Robins et al., 1994) were compared by using the domains and facets of the five-factor model of personality (FFM; Costa & McCrae, 1992) in a sample of patients with major depression (118 men, 202 women). A gender difference emerged from the pattern of correlations between PSI-II sociotropy and autonomy and the domains and facets of the Five-Factor Model of personality (FFM), suggesting that sociotropy and autonomy can signify different things for depressed men and women.

Sociotropic personality and information processing following imaginal priming: A test of the congruency hypothesis.

Sociotropic personality and information processing following imaginal priming: A test of the congruency hypothesis.