The Effect of Neuroticism on Psychological Distress in Medical Students

摘要

Psychological distress is a stress which gives a negative impact on mental and physical health. It also caused anxiety, worries, depression and psychiatric disorder. Psychological distress has several causal, such as individual behaviour, there are several behavioural traits such as neuroticism. Individual who has neuroticism behaviour are prone to stress, anxiety and insecurities. This research are aimed at understanding the effects of neuroticism towards psychological distress in college student. The research method used quantitative with 70 college students as sample. Big Five Personality (BFI) and The Kessler Psychological Distress Scalae (K10) are used as scaled for measurement. The data is analysed through simple linier regression with SPSS 23 for Windows. The result showed that neuroticism gives impact on psychological distress in college students in 17, 5% and has positive relationship which means, the higher neuroticism the higher psychological distress in college students.