대학생의 경조성 성향과 경계선 성향에 따른 군집유형과 정서반응성 및 대인관계 유능성의 차이

Abstract

This study investigates the adaptative characteristics of hypomanic personality compared to borderline personality. This defines what sorts of clusters are composed in accordance with the tendencies towards hypomanic personality and borderline personality and verifies the differences of emotional reactivity and interpersonal competence between clusters. Participants include 512 university students in Gwangju and Jeollanam Do. They answered a questionnaire under a guidance with purpose of this study informed. Data were analysed by SPSS 21.0 and k-means cluster analysis verified four types of clusters: hypomanic-dominant, borderline-dominant, intermixed, and average. One-way ANOVA and Scheffe post hoc were conducted. As the results, intermixed group shows the highest emotional reactivity and average group shows the lowest. Emotional reactivity of borderline-dominant group appears higher than that of hypomanic-dominant group. Interpersonal competence is the highest in hypomanic-dominant group and the lowest in the borderline-dominant group. Counseling university students who have hypomanic tendency could refer to this findings.