The relationship between stress level and personality and stress management techniques

This study aims to specify the relationship between personality, perceived stress level and stress management success on the independent accountants in Kırıkkale. In addition, whether there is a relationship between perceived stress levels of the independent accountants and some demographic variable such as income, vocational experience, age, gender, marital status and education level were tried to be specified. In order to collect data, questionnaire was applied and face to face meeting was made with 87 independent accountants in Kırıkkale. Eysenck Personality Inventory was used to identify the personality characteristics of the independent accountants and the Stress Level Scale to determine the sources of stress and stress management success scale to specify behavior types in stressful events. Correlation, regression, variance analyses, Tukey Post Hoc and t-test were used in the data analysis. As a result of the datas and analysises, it was become real that there is a significant difference between personality type and perceived stress level. According to this model, personality type of the independent accountants explains twelve percent of the perceived stress level variance and in terms of demographic changes there is a relationship between income, vocational experience, age and perceived stress level but there is not a relationship between gender, marital status and perceived stress level. In addition, there is a positive relationship between extraverted personality attribute and stress management success and there is a negative relationship between intraverted personality attribute and stress management success. On the other hand, there is a negative relationship between extraverted personality attribute and perceived stress level and there is a positive relationship between intraverted personality attribute and perceived stress level. Keywords: Personality, Personality Theories, Personality Types, Stress, Stress Sources, Stress Management Techniques, Independent Accountants