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In this study, the cross-sectional and longitudinal influence of personality traits on dispositional coping was examined. The sample consisted of 229 psychiatric outpatients who were investigated twice in an interval of six years. Personality was assessed twice with the Basic Character Inventory, which measures 17 general neurotic, impulsive hysterical and obsessive traits. Coping was measured...