Positive character strengths and coping Patterns with job stress

Personality traits have often been highlighted to relate to how people cope with job stress. The aim of present study was to comparison of religious strengths as positive personality traits among people with healthy (G: good health pattern, S: sparing pattern) and unhealthy (A: ambitious pattern, B: burnout pattern) coping Patterns with job stress. Population of the study included all employees of an industrial organization in Mashhad that 146 of them selected by stratified random sampling and responded to research tools. The instruments were the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths and Work-related Behavior and Experience Patterns Questionnaire. The data were analyzed using multivariance analyze. Finding were shown that people with healthy patterns have higher means of religious strengths than unhealthy types. These findings open a new perspective for research on the role of personality in coping with work-related stress. Character strengths are trainable personal characteristics, and therefore valuable resources to improve coping with work-related stress and to decrease the negative effects of that.