Christine L. Cameron

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that women who coped through expressing emotions surrounding cancer had fewer medical appointments for cancer-related morbidities, enhanced physical health and vigor, and decreased distress during the next 3 months compared with those low in emotional expression, with age, other coping strategy scores, and initial levels on dependent variables controlled statistically.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the psychometric adequacy and validity of scales designed to assess coping through emotional approach, and highlight the utility of functionalist theories of emotion as applied to coping theory.

TL;DR: Two studies supported hypotheses that published scales tapping coping through processing and expressing emotion are confounded with psychopathology, and that EAC, when tapped by items uncontaminated by distress, is beneficial under specific conditions.

TL;DR: Participants demonstrated a greater desire for information and emotional support from the well-adjusted target than from the poorly adjusted target, and a pervasive tendency toward downward comparison in self-evaluation also was noted.

TL;DR: Borderline constructs from subjective expected utility theory were tested with regard to their ability to predict patients' choice of surgical treatment as well as psychological distress and well-being over time.