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The structure of coping.
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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.Abstract:
Coping refers to behavior that protects peoplefrom being psychologically harmed by problematic social experience, a behavior that importantly mediates the impact that societies have on their members. The protective function of coping behavior can be exercised in three ways: by eliminating or modifying conditions giving rise to problems; by perceptually controlling the meaning of experience in a manner that neutralizes its problematic character; and by keeping the emotional consequences of problems within manageable bounds. The efficacy of a number of concrete coping behaviors representing these threefunctions was evaluated. 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 dealing with the more impersonal problems found in occupation. The effective coping modes are unequally distributed in society, with men, the educated, and the affluent making greater use of the efficacious mechanisms.read more
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Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.
Sheldon Cohen,Thomas Ashby Wills +1 more
TL;DR: There is evidence consistent with both main effect and main effect models for social support, but each represents a different process through which social support may affect well-being.
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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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Conservation of resources. A new attempt at conceptualizing stress.
TL;DR: A new stress model called the model of conservation of resources is presented, based on the supposition that people strive to retain, project, and build resources and that what is threatening to them is the potential or actual loss of these valued resources.
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Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): a reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test
TL;DR: Examination of the scale on somewhat different grounds, however, does suggest that future applications can benefit from its revision, and a minor modification to the Life Orientation Test is described, along with data bearing on the revised scale's psychometric properties.
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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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TL;DR: In this paper, Continuities and Discontinuities in Cultural Conditioning are discussed in the context of cultural conditioning, and the authors propose a framework for cultural conditioning.
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Economic strains and the coping functions of alcohol.
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Students under stress
TL;DR: The average homework load for first-through third-graders has doubled over the past two decades, even though research shows that homework doesn't benefit such young children as discussed by the authors, and some schools have responded by limiting homework for the youngest children and downplaying stress-causing programs such as academic honor rolls.
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An analysis of conflicting social norms.
TL;DR: Stouffer and Suchman as mentioned in this paper studied the role obligations of a non-commissioned officer in the Army and found that if the noncom had the role of agent of the command and in case the orders from above conflicted with what his men thought were right and necessary he was expected by his superiors to carry out the orders, open and flagrant disobedience by him of an order from above could not be tolerated by the command.