Relations between personality and coping: A meta-analysis.

Connor-Smith, Jennifer K.; Flachsbart, Celeste

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.93.6.1080

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“…As Carver et al (2010) noted, the literature on personality and coping is quite large, but meta-analyses support two conclusions. First, C is positively associated with primary control engagement (attempts to control the stressor itself) and problemsolving and is negatively associated with disengagement, denial, and expressions of negative emotion (for a supporting metaanalysis, see Connor-Smith & Flachsbart, 2007). In turn, these types of coping, particularly engaged forms, are related to better physical and mental health in the face of adversities.…”

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Conscientiousness, health, and aging: The Life Course of Personality Model.

Shanahan¹,

Hill²,

Roberts³

et al. 2014

Developmental Psychology

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The Conscientiousness (C) of the self and significant others influences health by way of mediational chains involving socioeconomic attainment, the avoidance and neutralization of stressors, the promotion of health behaviors and the minimization of risk behaviors, and the management of symptoms and diseases. Yet, meta-analyses reveal that these associations are moderated by factors that are not well understood. We propose the Life Course of Personality Model (LCP Model), which comprises a series of hypotheses that suggest how such mediational chains are subject to 2 sources of contingency. First, the mechanisms by which C translates into health and the avoidance of risk change from early childhood to late adulthood, involving processes that are specific to phases of the life course; also, however, C influences health by way of continuous processes extending over many decades of life. Second, C may be more consequential in some social contexts than in others, and when accompanied by some constellations of personality characteristics than by others. That is, the mediational processes by which C translates into health and the avoidance of disease are likely moderated by timing, social context (including the C of others), and other aspects of the individual's personality. We consider methodological implications of the LCP Model.

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“…In fact, Connor-Smith and Flachsbart's (2007) meta-analysis of personality and coping suggests that C is more strongly associated This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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Conscientiousness, health, and aging: The Life Course of Personality Model.

Shanahan¹,

Hill²,

Roberts³

et al. 2014

Developmental Psychology

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“…substance use, self-blame). Since evidence has shown both coping processes and playfulness to be aspects of personality (Barnett, 2011(Barnett, -2012Connor-Smith & Flachsbart, 2007;Woszczynksi, Roth, & Segars, 2002), it is likely that they share a natural relationship.…”

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The Playful Advantage: How Playfulness Enhances Coping with Stress

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This study investigated the interrelationship between playfulness in adults, perceived stress, and styles of coping. Research on playfulness has long centered on its connection to development in children, while the study of playfulness in adulthood has just recently commenced. Similarly, the psychology literature is rife with the study of stress and coping processes, whereas its study through the lens of playfulness is virtually nonexistent. This is unfortunate, as all three constructs are cognitive-emotional in nature, suggesting a natural relationship between them. This thesis study investigated whether playfulness serves an adaptive function in the experience of stress and corresponding coping strategies among college-aged students. Findings revealed that playful individuals reported lower levels of perceived stress than their less playful counterparts. Furthermore, playful individuals more frequently utilized adaptive, stressor-focused coping strategies and were less likely to employ negative, avoidant, and escape-oriented strategies. The findings suggested that as in childhood, playfulness serves a strong adaptive function in young adulthood, providing individuals with more cognitive resources from which they can manifest effective coping mechanisms in the face of stressful situations. Playfulness, then, should not remain on the peripheries of societal and academic thought, but rather should be developed, nurtured and subjected to further scientific inquiry.iii To the rose-smellers, the scenic-route-takers, the tree-climbers...may your courageous journey never end. To the rest, may you be inspired to reclaim your youthful spirit.iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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“…A number of individual variables may be implicated in work stress including the age, personality, selfesteem, training background and profession of participants (Connor-Smith & Flachsbart, 2007) which have not been explicitly examined in the present study. Despite participants being recruited from three different wards, all sites were based in the same NHS Trust which may act to limit the transferability of our findings.…”

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