Type of Dominant Personality in Coronary Artery Heart Disease Patients

Beny Prastyo (Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga)
Abdurrachman Abdurrachman (Department of Anatomy and Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga)
Yunias Setiawati (Department of Psychiatry, Universitas Airlangga / Dr. Soetomo General Hospital Surabaya)
Rerdin Julario (Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Universitas Airlangga / Dr. Soetomo General Hospital Surabaya)
Lukman Hakim Andira (Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga)

Health Notions
Vol 3, No 11 (2019): November

Coronary heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in Indonesia. Personality is one of the risk factors of coronary heart disease. The aim of the study was to investigate the dominant personality according to Big Five Personality in patients with coronary heart disease. We used an analytical descriptive study with cross-sectional design. The samples taken were patients with coronary heart disease in Dr. Soetomo General Hospital Surabaya in May 2019. Data of personality were collected using the Big Five Personality questionnaire. The result showed that the dominant personality according to Big Five Personality in patients with coronary heart disease was conscientiousness. Keywords: big five personality; coronary heart disease; personality type