Personality and Coping
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...recent review, Carver and Connor-Smith (2009) concluded that the relationship between coping...
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...In a more recent review, Carver and Connor-Smith (2010) concluded that the relationship between coping strategy and adjustment is necessarily “moderated by the nature, duration, context, and controllability of the stressor” (p. 694)....
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...…literature on coping, it is well established that in general people can identify the nuances of different types of stressful situations and will tend to use different coping strategies across different types of situations (Carver & Connor-Smith, 2010; Folkman & Moskowitz, 2004; McCrae, 1984)....
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...Although there are numerous definitions of stress (e.g., Lazarus & Folkman, 1984), stress can generally be considered as the experience of anticipating or encountering adversity in one’s goalrelated efforts (Carver & Connor-Smith, 2010)....
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...Optimism—characterized by a tendency toward positive expectations for the future and confidence in one’s ability to cope with challenges—has been consistently linked to better health (Boehm & Kubzansky 2012, Carver & Connor-Smith 2010)....
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...Given that personality consists of action, thoughts and feelings (Carver & Connor-Smith, 2010), a complete assessment of positive personality change following trauma should pay particular attention to patterns of changes in action, as well as thoughts and feelings in relevant domains....
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...Analyses with specific coping types revealed stronger relationships between personality and coping, with several effects in the range considered moderately strong (Cohen 1988)....
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...Personality assessment has a long history, and there is more consensus about the structure of personality and optimal personality measures than about the structure and assessment of coping....
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...Research should also explore responses to multiple stressors over time to assess how personality influences the capacity to match coping to problems, change strategies that are not helpful, and persist in those that are....
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...As a general rule, mean correlations of 0.10 are considered small effects, 0.30 medium effects, and 0.50 large effects (Cohen 1988)....
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...It is often said that stress exists when people confront situations that tax or exceed their ability to manage them (e.g., Lazarus 1966, 1999; Lazarus & Folkman 1984)....
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...The distinction that launched modern examination of coping was that between problem-focused and emotion-focused coping (Lazarus & Folkman 1984)....
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...Also sometimes invoked in the context of stress is the concept of challenge (Lazarus & Folkman 1984)....
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...Solberg Nes & Segerstrom (2006) focused on optimism as measured by the Life Orientation Test or its revised version (LOT-R) using data from 50 samples of adults and adolescents....
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...The concept of disengagement coping has been extended to include relinquishing goals that are threatened by the stressor (Carver et al. 1989)....
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...A somewhat different view of stress uses an economic metaphor (Hobfoll 1989, 1998), holding that people have resources that they try to protect, defend, and conserve....
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