Background: Schizophrenia is considered a chronic and disabling mental disorder that affects approximately one percent of the world's population. It is characterized by a variable course and its various symptoms may predominate depending on the characteristics of the person.
Aim: Recognition of the personality traits and styles of stress-coping applied by healthy people and people diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Methods: The study examined 60 people in total: 30 healthy people between 19 and 58 years old and29 people diagnosed with schizophrenia and 1 person with schizophrenia spectrum disorder between 25 and 72 years old. In the present study we used Personality inventory NEO-FFI by Paul Costa and Robert McCreae, designed to diagnose personality traits described in the five-factor model called "The Big Five" and CISS: Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations by N.S. Endler, J.D.A. Parker, designed to diagnose stress-coping styles.
Keywords: personality; schizophrenia; styles of stress coping.