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Stress and coping in the explanation of psychological adjustment among chronically ill adults.
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Results show coping strategy use tends to be minimally explained by medical diagnosis, and the general modesty of coping effects and the failure of the stress buffering hypothesis to explain adjustment indicates a need for new research approaches and some modification of current theories of coping.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1984-01-01. It has received 601 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Coping (psychology).read more
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Assessing Coping Strategies: A Theoretically Based Approach
TL;DR: A multidimensional coping inventory to assess the different ways in which people respond to stress was developed and an initial examination of associations between dispositional and situational coping tendencies was allowed.
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You want to measure coping but your protocol's too long: consider the brief COPE.
TL;DR: A brief form of a previously published measure of coping assessing several responses known to be relevant to effective and ineffective coping called the COPE inventory is presented, which has proven to be useful in health-related research.
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Dynamics of a stressful encounter: Cognitive appraisal, coping, and encounter outcomes.
TL;DR: In this paper, an intraindividual analysis of the interrelations among primary appraisal (what was at stake in the encounter), secondary appraisal (coping options), eight forms of problem-and emotion-focused coping, and encounter outcomes in a sample of community-residing adults was performed.
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How coping mediates the effect of optimism on distress : a study of women with early stage breast cancer
Charles S. Carver,Christina Pozo,Suzanne D. Harris,Victoria Noriega,Michael F. Scheier,David S. Robinson,Alfred S. Ketcham,Frederick L. Moffat,Kimberley C. Clark +8 more
TL;DR: Path analyses suggested that several coping reactions played mediating roles in the effect of optimism on distress; acceptance and the use of humor prospectively predicted lower distress; denial and disengagement predicted more distress.
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Coping as a mediator of emotion.
Susan Folkman,Richard S. Lazarus +1 more
TL;DR: The present research addresses this imbalance by evaluating the extent to which coping mediated emotions during stressful encounters in two Caucasian, community-residing samples by evaluating eight forms of coping mediated each of four sets of emotions.
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The structure of coping.
TL;DR: Results indicate that individuals' coping interventions are most effective when dealing with problems within the close interpersonal role areas of marriage and child-rearing and least effective when deals with the more impersonal problems found in occupation.
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Social support as a moderator of life stress
TL;DR: It appears that social support can protect people in crisis from a wide variety of pathological states: from low birth weight to death, from arthritis through tuberculosis to depression, alcoholism, and the social breakdown syndrome.
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An analysis of coping in a middle-aged community sample
Susan Folkman,Richard S. Lazarus +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the ways 100 community-residing men and women aged 45 to 64 coped with the stressful events of daily living during one year and found that coping conceptualized in either defensive or problem-solving terms is incomplete.
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