Minato-ku, Tokyo 108)

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1 The Japanese Journal of Psychology 1993, Vol. 64, No. 2, Personality, hassles, and psychological and physical well-being Keiko Nakano (Department Minato-ku, Tokyo 108) of Psychology, Keio University, The effects of personality characteristics on psychological/physical well-being of ninety-one Japanese working women were investigated with second-order factors of the 16PF questionnaire. Multiple regression analyses revealed significant, negative contributions of extroversion and independence to depression. However, adding hassles as perceived stressors to the regression equation markedly decreased the amount of depression variance explained by these personality variables. None of the personality factors predicted physical symptoms, and only hassles significantly contributed to their prediction, indicating strong associations between hassles and physical symptoms. Conceptual overlap and confoun ding effects between hassles and symptom measures are discussed in the light of these results. Key words: extroversion, independence, depression, physical symptoms, hassles, working women.

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3 Means, standard deviations, and correlation coefficients of 16PF factors, hassles, and symptoms Results of multiple regression analyses with depression and physical symptoms

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