Intensification of Type D Personality Traits and Coping Strategies of People Staying in Polish Penitentiary Institutions—Cross-Sectional Study

Kołodziej, Kinga; Kurowska, Anna; Majda, Anna

doi:10.3390/ijerph19042301

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Intensification of Type D Personality Traits and Coping Strategies of People Staying in Polish Penitentiary Institutions—Cross-Sectional Study

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Kinga Kołodziej

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Anna Kurowska

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Anna Majda

Laboratory of Theory and Fundamentals of Nursing, Institute of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Michałowskiego 12 Street, 31-126 Cracow, Poland

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(4), 2301; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042301

Submission received: 14 November 2021 / Revised: 12 February 2022 / Accepted: 14 February 2022 / Published: 17 February 2022

(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the intensity of the occurrence of stress-prone personality traits (type D) and the strategies of coping with stress in a group of people staying in Polish penitentiary institutions. This study was conducted in two penitentiary units in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Participants consisted of 152 prisoners. In this cross-sectional study, two standardized research tools—Mini-COPE Inventory for Measurement Coping with Stress and the Type-D Scale (DS14)—were used. The presence of a stress-prone personality (type D) among persons serving a prison sentence concerned 42.11% of the respondents and did not correlate with their sex and age. The convicted persons were more often guided by ‘negative affectivity’ than by ‘social inhibition’. People staying in penitentiary units most often used the strategy of ‘active coping’ and ‘planning’. Types of coping strategies used by the respondents depended on their sex and the presence of type D personal characteristics. Increasing people’s social awareness of the issues of stress experienced by prisoners can contribute to reducing the phenomenon of the marginalization and stigmatization of incarcerated people.

Keywords: type D personality; coping strategies; stress; prisoners; mental health

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Kołodziej, K.; Kurowska, A.; Majda, A. Intensification of Type D Personality Traits and Coping Strategies of People Staying in Polish Penitentiary Institutions—Cross-Sectional Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 2301. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042301

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Kołodziej K, Kurowska A, Majda A. Intensification of Type D Personality Traits and Coping Strategies of People Staying in Polish Penitentiary Institutions—Cross-Sectional Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(4):2301. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042301

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Kołodziej, Kinga, Anna Kurowska, and Anna Majda. 2022. "Intensification of Type D Personality Traits and Coping Strategies of People Staying in Polish Penitentiary Institutions—Cross-Sectional Study" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 4: 2301. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042301

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Kołodziej, K., Kurowska, A., & Majda, A. (2022). Intensification of Type D Personality Traits and Coping Strategies of People Staying in Polish Penitentiary Institutions—Cross-Sectional Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4), 2301. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042301

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