Aim of this workshop is to go through the various contributions, already in literature, about the relationship between personality and coping styles, and add to those our own study about how people react to problems experienced as stressors according to their personality. The study was conducted in the Clinical Psychology Section of the S.Gerardo Hospital in Monza - Italy, assessing 107 out-patients who underwent a number of three clinical interviews and five test, including the 16 Personality Factors Questionnaire by Cattell (to assess personality profile) and the COPE (Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced) Questionanire to assess coping styles. Thus we extracted personality characteristics from the personality profiles and analysed the correlations among these and the coping styles as obtained from the COPE, resulting as follows: Negative correlation between anxiety level and both problem and emotion focused coping. Positive correlation between autonomy (independence) level and problem focused coping. Positive correlation between critical/experimental attitude and emotion focused coping (such as positive reinterpretation of the experienced event). Negative correlation between self-confidence (here as counterpart of shyness) level and tendency to rely on religion for consolation. Negative corelation between cognitive/ problem solving abilities and potentially disfunctional coping styles (such as negation). Positive correlation between tendency to depression and potentially disfunctional coping styles (such as behavioural inhibition). These and others were found and will be discussed about their possible implications in a psychoterapic context, and for a specific aim to help patients to improve use and effectiveness of coping styles.