Coping with stress: divergent strategies of optimists and pessimists.
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...At present, we know the alpha reliabilities of these item sets in their dispositional formats (.93 and .90, respectively, among a sample of 768 students), but nothing more. personality traits in coping; indeed, we have studied the role of one such trait ourselves (Scheier et al., 1986)....
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...When situations are controllable, active coping strategies predominate; when situations seem less controllable, alternative strategies predominate (Folkman & Lazarus, 1980; Scheier et al., 1986)....
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...Indeed, previous research has found exactly this pattern in coping with specific stressful transactions (Scheier et al., 1986)....
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...personality traits in coping; indeed, we have studied the role of one such trait ourselves (Scheier et al., 1986)....
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...Indeed, previous research has found exactly this pattern in coping with specific stressful transactions (Scheier et al., 1986 )....
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...A third possibility, in many ways the most reasonable, stems from the fact that emotion-focused coping, as discussed by Lazarus and Folkman (1984), is a broad category with several subclasses....
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...0 (for statistical details, see Nie, Hull, Jenkins, Steinbrenner, & Bent, 1975)....
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