Coping styles as correlates to level of perceived stress and personality traits : basis for rehabilitative intervention program for the youth / Zerinah A. Hibek. 6

Thesis (M.A.)-- Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 2017.;A thesis presented to the Graduate School of Arts, Sciences, and Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology. 56

5

ABSTRACT: Young female offenders at Manila Youth Reception Center face considerable amount of stress based from their life events. This suggests that there is a need for rehabilitative intervention program among the young female offenders. Personality traits; openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, and coping styles; reflective, reactive, and suppressive coping styles, are correlated to perception of stress to serve as a basis for the rehabilitative intervention program. Descriptive statistics shows that young female offenders have moderate level of perceived stress, high level of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience. Among the coping styles, reactive coping is found to have the highest statistical mean among young female offenders. Nonparametric correlation analysis shows that perception of stress is correlated to extraversion and decrease in reactive coping. This suggests that young female offenders' respond to moderate stress by being sociable and emotionally reactive. However, although reactive coping is negatively associated with young female offenders' level of perceived stress, their perceived stress is still at moderate level. This would imply that their utilization of reactive coping appears to be ineffective in diminishing perceived stress. The findings were utilized as basis for rehabilitative intervention program for young female offenders. Keywords: Perceived Stress; Personality Traits; Coping Styles, Young Female Offenders.

5