title: Psychological mindedness in relation to personality and coping in a sample of young adult psychiatric patients.
abstract: Psychological mindedness (PM) is a relevant but rarely studied construct in clinical psychology. The aim was to examine the relationships among PM, personality, and coping in young adults with psychological difficulties. Sixty-three young women and 32 young men who were admitted for intake at a Dutch mental health institute completed relevant questionnaires. PM showed positive associations with the putatively adaptive personality characteristics of extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness and a negative correlation with neuroticism. In addition, PM was associated with problem-focused coping independently of the effect of personality characteristics. PM seems to be related to adaptive person characteristics in young adults with psychological difficulties. Longitudinal studies are needed to examine the issue of causality.
authors.affiliation: Centre of Research on Psychology in Somatic Disease (CoRPS), Department of Medical Psychology, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands. i.nyklicek@uvt.nl
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nyklícek
authors.forename: Joëla C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Poot
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Opstal
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy; D009426:Netherlands; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult