سمات الشخصية عند مرضى القلب و الأوعية الدموية

Abstract EN

The purpose of the present explorative study is to shed light on personality traits of cardiovascular diseased persons from the five factors model (MaCrae and Costa, 1992) perspective.

Participated in the actual study 87 individuals suffering from cardiovascular diseases (48 males and 39 females), they were bemg treated in cardiology service (CHU Mustapha).

A short form of the big five personality inventory (McCrae and Costa, 1992), translated and adapted to Arab societies by (El Ansari, 1996) was used as a measurement tool.

The results showed that Conscientiousness was the prevailing personality trait in cardiovascular diseased persons.

Though the results of the actual study were in contradiction with previous studies, some interesting points were discussed.

Further research is necessarily and strongly needed in order to reach any understanding and conclusive arguments about the relationship between personality traits and cardiovascular disease.