A Study of Emotional Competence and Depression in reference to Personality types

The present study was an attempt to explore the effect of personality types on depression and emotional competence. A 2x2 factorial design was used. The selected sample of 80 subjects of 18-40 years of age was equally divided on the basis of personality types and further into males and females. The stratified random sampling was used for sample selection. ADSS scale developed by Pallavi Bhatnagar (2011) was administered to determine the level of depression. Type A/B Behavioural pattern scale developed by Upinder Dhar and Manisha Jain (2001) was employed to measure personality types. Emotional competencies scale by H.C. Sharma and R.L. Bhardwaj (2007) was used to measure emotional competencies of the subjects. The Means, SDs and ANOVA were utilized to examine the outcome of the study. Results revealed that subjects of Type A and Type B personality pattern were significantly different on the level of depression. Influence was also found to be significantly different among Type A/B on some dimensions of emotional competence. Gender differences were also observed on few dimensions of emotional competence.