The five major factors of personality and their relationship to post-traumatic growth in a sample of women with breast cancer, both working and non-working

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Department of Psychology - Faculty of Arts - South Valley University

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The study aimed to reveal the relationship between the five major factors of personality and post-traumatic growth, to reveal the differences in breast cancer patients working and non-working in the five major factors of personality and post-traumatic growth, and finally to reveal the contribution of some of the five major factors of personality in predicting post-traumatic growth in a sample of breast cancer patients. The researcher relied on the scale of the five major factors of personality prepared by "Costa & McCrae" (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and Arabized by Mohammed Badr Al-Ansari (1997). Orman Hospital in Luxor, the results of the study found a positive relationship between the factors of extraversion, openness to experience, acceptability and post-traumatic growth, while no correlation was found between neuroticism, conscientiousness and post-traumatic growth, and the results also revealed the existence of differences between working and non-working breast cancer patients Female workers in each of (extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and post-traumatic growth) in favor of female workers. Finally, the results showed that the factors of extraversion, openness to experience, and acceptability predict post-traumatic growth.

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