Coping flexibility and eudaimonic well‐being in university students

Freire, Carlos; Núñez, José Carlos; Arias, Antonio Valle

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“…Most researchers assume that coping functions are orthogonal constructs and individuals are prone to adopt one type of coping over another (Eisenbarth, 2012). However, when faced with stressful situations, people can use more than one strategy and it would be counterproductive to pit the efficacy of one strategy against another (Freire et al, 2018). Each person may use a different combination of strategies, and hence, it would be valuable to consider the profile or combination of strategies rather than simply examining coping strategies in isolation of one another (Eisenbarth, 2012).…”

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Coping profiles in multiple sclerosis: Comparison of personal resources

Wilski¹,

Tomczak²,

Ferlak

et al. 2021

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders

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Coping profiles in multiple sclerosis: Comparison of personal resources

Wilski¹,

Tomczak²,

Ferlak

et al. 2021

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders

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“…La elevada vulnerabilidad al estrés existente en la etapa universitaria ha focalizado el interés investigador hacia los procesos de afrontamiento. La investigación reciente constata la necesidad de que el estudiantado disponga de un amplio abanico de estrategias para acomodar su respuesta a la demanda específica de la situación como medida eficaz para lograr estados psicológicos adaptativos (Dodek et al, 2020;Freire et al, 2018;Hasselle et al, 2019). Sin embargo existe todavía poco conocimiento sobre los recursos psicológicos personales que explicarían la relación entre flexibilidad en el afrontamiento del estrés y salud mental.…”

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Flexibilidad en el afrontamiento del estrés y fortalezas personales en estudiantes universitarios

Rodríguez

Rico

2021

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Las altas y heterogéneas demandas que ha de afrontar el estudiantado universitario en su día a día han acrecentado en los últimos años el interés de la investigación por el estudio de la flexibilidad en el afrontamiento como recurso eficaz para la consecución de un funcionamiento psicológico adaptativo. Desde este planteamiento, el presente trabajo analizó la relación entre la utilización flexible de diferentes estrategias de afrontamiento del estrés y las fortalezas personales, erigidas en competencias psicológicas esenciales para la consecución de una vida plena, satisfactoria y feliz. Participaron 401 estudiantes de la Universidade da Coruña (España). Mediante un análisis de perfiles latentes (LPA) se identificaron dos perfiles diferenciados de afrontamiento: un perfil de baja flexibilidad en el afrontamiento (preferencia por estrategias de autocrítica y retirada social) y un perfil de alta flexibilidad en el afrontamiento (preferencia por estrategias de resolución de problemas, reestructuración cognitiva, expresión emocional y apoyo social). Este último grupo evidenció niveles significativamente más elevados de fortalezas personales que el grupo de afrontamiento improductivo. De conformidad con estos hallazgos, las intervenciones psicoeducativas dirigidas a la adquisición y utilización estratégica de diferentes recursos aproximativos de afrontamiento podrían constituir una vía eficaz para favorecer el desarrollo de las fortalezas personales en el estudiantado universitario.

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“…Occupational well-being research has been scant in China (Cooke et al, 2020). As coping plays a critical role in maintaining well-being (Freire et al, 2018), it is important to investigate coping in this context.…”

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The work stress of Chinese senior executives: Work stressors and coping strategies

Duan¹

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Along with rapid economic development, work stress has become a serious issue in China, especially for senior executives who are steering their organisations in this turbulent and complex social environment. The Chinese economy is transitioning from being centrally planned towards a more market-orientated one, where political and market forces continue to work closely together. As these economic changes challenge traditional values such as harmony and guanxi, Chinese senior executives who work within these environments and manage these workplace transitions become an interesting focus of attention worthy of deeper research. While our knowledge about work stress is mainly based on research in Western societies, how work stress manifests itself in a transitional economy like China is underexplored. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory, this study examines the work stress of Chinese senior executives. Work stress is not only caused by stressors but is also influenced by the efficacy of coping. As an individual can cope with a stressor in different ways depending on the resources possessed by the individual, this study is interested in the relationship between coping resources and coping strategies. Therefore, it asks two research questions: What stressors do Chinese senior executives experience in their work environment? How do Chinese senior executives utilise resources to cope with their work stress? This study draws on phenomenology as a philosophical lens to explore the work stress of Chinese senior executives as stress is conceptualised as a subjective personal experience, the investigation of which needs to be based on the phenomenological assumption that reality is based on perception and interpretation of the external world. In addressing the research questions, a sample of Chinese senior executive within private, public, and mixed ownership organisations were interviewed using Critical Incident Technique (CIT) to capture contextual details critical for identifying stressors and coping strategies. Research data was analysed using six phases of thematic analysis. This study contributes to extant literature by providing insights into the work stressors and coping strategies that Chinese senior executives face and employ. Findings highlight the relevance of both organisational and environmental factors in shaping performance uncertainty that give rise to the work stress of Chinese senior executives. Moreover, political-business role conflict linked to the one-party state is identified as a distinctive work stressor in the Chinese context – a work stressor that has hitherto not been identified in the work stress literature. Furthermore, whereas previous literature predominantly focuses on workplace interpersonal conflicts as a major work stressor, this study identifies an additional interpersonal stressor: the challenge of maintaining workplace interpersonal harmony. Finally, while previous research of career-related stressors mainly focuses on negative, confining career experiences, this study reveals that Chinese senior executives often identify challenging work goals in their desire for career success. As for coping, prior research has mainly focused on individual coping, with less attention afforded to collective and social coping. This study finds that collective coping is supported by job resources (within the organisation) and that social coping is underpinned by social resources (external to the organisation). A specific focus of this study was to examine how job and social resources are utilised to implement collective and social coping. Findings reveal that job and social resources facilitate problem-focused strategies in both collective and social coping. By contrast, these resources are barely used to facilitate emotion-focused and meaning-focused strategies in both collective and social coping. Research has shown that effective coping is determined by coping flexibility and that multiple coping strategies are utilised flexibly according to different situations. However, the asymmetric pattern of collective and social coping found in this study indicates that Chinese senior executives may not fully benefit from coping in the organisational and social domain. Overall, this study builds on cognitive appraisal theory by identifying several contextually situated work stressors and explaining the connections between coping resources and coping strategies within the framework of collective and social coping. In doing so, the study provides new insights into work stress in the Chinese context, where Chinese senior executives are required to meet many contradictory expectations in a rapidly changing society.

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Coping flexibility and eudaimonic well‐being in university students

Cited by 28 publications

References 51 publications

Coping profiles in multiple sclerosis: Comparison of personal resources

Coping profiles in multiple sclerosis: Comparison of personal resources

Flexibilidad en el afrontamiento del estrés y fortalezas personales en estudiantes universitarios

The work stress of Chinese senior executives: Work stressors and coping strategies

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