Personality and Coping: Three Generations of Research

Suls, Jerry; David, James P.; Harvey, John H.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1996.tb00942.x

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“…As in the case of self-evaluative cognitions, it is also crucial to focus on the timing of coping. We need to consider which coping behavior is exhibited at which point in the coping process (e.g., Suls, David, & Harvey, 1996). For instance, longitudinal studies in the domain of coping with cancer (e.g., Filipp, 1999) and with death of a close person (e.g., Wortman & Silver, 2001) demonstrated that coping strategies such as "minimizing the threat " and " wish for someone to take over " maintained their adaptive power across a period of 9 months after the critical event.…”

Section: Coping and Control Strategies: Further Evidence For Reserve mentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology

Baltes¹,

Lindenberger²,

Staudinger³

2007

Handbook of Child Psychology

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Section: Coping and Control Strategies: Further Evidence For Reserve mentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology

Baltes¹,

Lindenberger²,

Staudinger³

2007

Handbook of Child Psychology

804

1,022

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“…Personality and coping were essentially equated in psychodynamic theory, with defense mechanisms conceptualized as stable traits that influenced perceptions of events and dictated consistently adaptive or maladaptive responses (see Suls, David, & Harvey, 1996, for an excellent history). Although most researchers now distinguish between personality and coping, some conceptualizations of coping remain quite broad.…”

Section: Defining Personality and Copingmentioning

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Relations between personality and coping: A meta-analysis.

Connor-Smith¹,

Flachsbart²

2007

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Personality may directly facilitate or constrain coping, but relations of personality to coping have been inconsistent across studies, suggesting a need for greater attention to methods and samples. This meta-analysis tested moderators of relations between Big Five personality traits and coping using 2,653 effect sizes drawn from 165 samples and 33,094 participants. Personality was weakly related to broad coping (e.g., Engagement or Disengagement), but all 5 traits predicted specific strategies. Extraversion and Conscientiousness predicted more problem-solving and cognitive restructuring, Neuroticism less. Neuroticism predicted problematic strategies like wishful thinking, withdrawal, and emotion-focused coping but, like Extraversion, also predicted support seeking. Personality more strongly predicted coping in young samples, stressed samples, and samples reporting dispositional rather than situation-specific coping. Daily versus retrospective coping reports and self-selected versus researcher-selected stressors also moderated relations between personality and coping. Cross-cultural differences were present, and ethnically diverse samples showed more protective effects of personality. Richer understanding of the role of personality in the coping process requires assessment of personality facets and specific coping strategies, use of laboratory and daily report studies, and multivariate analyses.

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“…Contemporary stress research grew out of an older, psychodynamicoriented literature that emphasized the importance of ego defenses as mechanisms for adapting to stress and anxiety, which led to the emergence of trait-theories of stress (Suls et al, 1996). Empirical support for the ego defense perspective consisted largely of case studies and failed to provide a distinction between defense mechanisms and outcomes (Suls et al, 1996).…”

Section: Theoretical Perspectives On Stress Trait Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Occupational Stress: The Role of Psychological Resilience in the Ecological Transactional Model

Sivam¹,

Chang

2016

ESJ

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The present study adopts an ecological approach to examining occupational stress, which incorporates both a trait and a transactional perspective to offer a more comprehensive conceptualization of the antecedents and outcomes of stress with psychological stress as a moderator. Data collected from 182 job incumbents supported the hypothesized relationships among primary appraisal, secondary appraisal, psychological resilience, and maladaptive outcomes. Results from structural equation modeling revealed that primary appraisal affected secondary appraisal, and secondary appraisal, in turn, contributed to maladaptive outcomes. In addition, the relationship between primary appraisal and maladaptive outcomes was partially mediated by secondary appraisal. Consistent with our hypothesis that resilience plays an adaptive role in the stress process, the results indicated that resilience had a direct influence on secondary appraisal. Resilience also affected maladaptive outcomes of stress but this relationship was partially mediated by secondary appraisal.

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Personality and Coping: Three Generations of Research

Cited by 144 publications

References 114 publications

Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology

Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology

Relations between personality and coping: A meta-analysis.

Occupational Stress: The Role of Psychological Resilience in the Ecological Transactional Model

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