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The survey included the\n TRQ to evaluate tinnitus-related distress and the Color Code Personality Assessment to determine personality type.\n                    <jats:bold>Data Collection and Analysis:<\/jats:bold>\n                    The Color Code Personality Assessment results in one of four personality colors, red, blue, white, or yellow, and focuses on\n how to interact and communicate with different personality subtypes. The survey was posted to 11 different social media groups on Facebook and was open for 3 months. A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted to evaluate the effect of personality type on the TRQ score. One-sample\n chi-square tests were conducted to determine if the number of respondents with tinnitus-related distress was greater than chance for each personality type.\n                    <jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold>\n                    The one-way ANOVA revealed a significant main effect for personality type. Follow-up tests comprising the\n Bonferroni test indicated that the TRQ scores for red personality types were significantly higher than those for white personality types. Analyses using one-sample chi-square tests for each personality type indicated significant results for respondents with blue or red personality types.\n                    <jats:bold>Conclusions:<\/jats:bold>\n                    Reactions to tinnitus differed across personality types. Respondents with the red personality type reported higher tinnitus-related distress than that of respondents with the white personality type. Respondents with blue and red personality types were more likely\n to report bothersome tinnitus.\n                    <jats:bold>Clinical Relevance Statement:<\/jats:bold>\n                    Although various tinnitus questionnaires that assess tinnitus distress and its effect on different areas of the patient\u2019s life are available, audiologists do not have a tool that allows insight regarding\n how to appropriately counsel and treat patients with tinnitus based on their reaction to it. Understanding the personality of patients and how personality will impact their reaction to tinnitus can guide the clinician\u2019s ability to provide effective counseling, thus adding to the clinician\u2019s\n skillset the ability to deliver customized treatment options to patients with tinnitus.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3766\/jaaa.250014","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,12]],"date-time":"2025-11-12T01:05:32Z","timestamp":1762909532000},"page":"187-196","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Reactions to Tinnitus Based on Color Code Personality Type"],"prefix":"10.3766","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"Brittany","family":"Grayless","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"*The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Knoxville, TN"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Patrick","family":"Plyler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"*The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Knoxville, TN"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Erin","family":"Plyler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"*The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Knoxville, TN"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kailey","family":"Thompson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"*The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Knoxville, TN"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Teresa","family":"DeNiro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"*The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Knoxville, TN"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2087","reference":[{"issue":"(7)","key":"c1","first-page":"977","article-title":"Psychological aspects of tinnitus and the application of cognitive\u2013behavioral therapy","volume":"22","year":"2002","journal-title":"Clinical Psychology Review"},{"issue":"(1)","key":"c3","first-page":"11","article-title":"The impact of type D personality on health-related quality of life in tinnitus patients is mainly mediated by anxiety and depression","volume":"31","year":"2010","journal-title":"Otology & Neurotology"},{"issue":"(13)","key":"c2","first-page":"1224","article-title":"Tinnitus","volume":"378","year":"2018","journal-title":"New England Journal of Medicine"},{"issue":"(5)","key":"c4","first-page":"1303","article-title":"Genetic and environmental continuity in personality development: a meta-analysis","volume":"140","year":"2014","journal-title":"Psychological Bulletin"},{"key":"c3817252","year":"2008"},{"key":"c5","year":"1992"},{"issue":"(4)","key":"c6","first-page":"255","article-title":"Type D personality. 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