Dyspepsia is a group of symptoms that not cause mortality, but dyspepsia can be a important

problem that decrease quality of life. One factors causing dyspepsia is stress of individual
problems or environtmen problems. Stress can increase secreation of gastric acid. Each
human has different way to accepted and adapted for their stress, that depend on personality
type. Individual with personality type Aeasier has stress than personality type B. This
research aimed to analyzing the correlation between personality type A and B with dyspepsia
occurrence in Sumbersari Subdistrict, Sumbersari District, Jember Regency. It was an
observational analytical research by using cross sectional design. Sample of research
consisted of 96 persons living in Sumbersari Village. Sampling technique of research consist
of stratified cluster sampling. Based on the analysis of research result, it was known that p-
value was 0,000 and Oddss Ratio was 340. These scores confirmed that personality type A
and B had significant correlation with the occurrence of dyspepsia. Respondents with
personality type A had risk to suffer from dyspepsia 340 times higher than respondents with
personality type B.