The effect of personality and attachment styles on subjective fatigue: An investigation based on psychobiological theory

Due to the gap in the literature in defining fatigue, it was thought that evaluating fatigue at the level of personality and attachment would contribute to the development of the study. In addition, it is thought that the application of the Piper Fatigue Scale on healthy individuals to explain fatigue in a multidimensional way will add originality to the research. The most important contribution of the study to the literature is that the factors affecting fatigue will be addressed from an integrative perspective. In our study, it was found that people with harm avoidance temperament perceived fatigue higher than those with novelty seeking and reward addiction temperaments. None of the character traits had a difference in thelevel of fatigue perception. When we examined the effect of temperament profiles on fatigue in the light of recent research, it was found that cautious, sensitive and methodical temperament profiles perceived fatigue higher than reliable temperament; fanatic, pessimistic, dependent and organized character profiles perceived fatigue higher than reliable characters. Emotional-unreliable and organized-competent personality network perceived fatigue higher than creative-reliable personality network. In our study, it was found that individuals with anxious attachment style perceived fatigue at a higher level than individuals with avoidant and secure attachment styles.