The relationship personality traits and and their coping strategies of counselors

This research is based on the relationship between the personality traits of the counselors living in the province of İzmir and their strategies for coping stress. These two features are taken as the main variables of this research. In addition, the correlation between several theoratically related suppositions and the above mentioned basic features were also researched. These suppositions are; sex, age, professional seniority, graduation success, marital status, the foundations and the type of foundations they?ve worked at.The research was done with counselors who have been working for public and private primary and secondary schools which are situated in İzmir in the school year of 2006-2007.The Personal Information form prepared by the researher; the Hacettepe Personality Scale prepared by Özgüven and the Coping with Stress Strategies scale which was adapted to Turkish by Şahin and Durak were adminestered to 102 school conselors. Statistical results of 0.05 and higher were accepted as a significant level. Results were calculated using statistical methods in SPSS 13.0 computer programme, pearson product moment corelation, one way ANOVA, ?t? test. The Scheffe test was used when there were significant relationship between the groups.The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the personalities of conselors and their coping stres.It has been found that there is a significant correlation between councelors? sex and their personality traits: general conformity, personal conformity, emotional stability, neurotic tendencies, and psychotic symptoms.No significant corelation between the foundations where the conselors work and the personality traits was observed.xiA significant correlation was found between the age and the conformity with social norms. Another correlation observed was between professional seniority and self-fulfillment and antisocial tendencies. Another remarkable correlation was between the department of graduation and emotional stability, psychotic symptoms and neurotic tendencies. Emotional stability and antisocial tendencies also changed depending on marital status.The findings also showed positive approach, self-confident approach and desperate approach in coping strategies significantly changed depending on sex of counselors.No changes in coping strategies of counselors were observed depending on the foundation, age, deparment of graduation, professional seniority and marital status.