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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Coping theory"”.
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From struggle to strategy: emotional engagement and an emergent coping theory among Title I instrumental music educators
… schools balance resourcefulness, resilience, and coping strategies. Title I schools, which serve high-need communities, often face chronic underfunding. This places substantial demands and emotional burdens on music educators striving to sustain high-quality programs with limited resources. …
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Positive and Negative Affect: Differential Impact of Optimism, Pessimism, and Coping in People Living with HIV/AIDS
… behaviors. The present study uses a stress and coping theory viewing HIV-related stigma and physical symptoms as stressors in PLH. Results suggest whereas symptoms and stigma consistently predict negative affect, positive affect, and overall depression, the role of optimism, pessimism, active …
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Work Hope as a Mediator Between Proactive Coping and Career Planfulness in Domestic and International University Students
This study applied proactive coping theory (E. R. Greenglass, 2002; R. Schwarzer, 2000) to the domain of career development in domestic and international student transition-to-university. Participants were recruited from a large southeastern state university. No significant between-group …
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Inside Interracial Marriages: Accounts of Black-White Couples
… described as stressful and to identify the coping strategies that they utilized to reduce feelings of distress. Another goal of this study was to discover the actions that these eight couples took to maintain marital satisfaction. This investigation consisted of a total of 24 interviews, 16 …
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Multiple Predictors of College Adjustment and Academic Performance for Undergraduates in Their First Semester
… Aspinwall & Taylor, 1994) and current stress-coping theory (Moos & Swindle, 1990). Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that the hypothesized model did not fit the data well. However, subsequent regression analyses did validate the view that college success is multidetermined. …
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Coping and adjustment following acquired brain injury
… first paper critically reviews the concept of 'coping' following an acquired brain injury. This draws on two main bodies of literature. First, Kurt Goldstein's 'organismic theory' and, in particular, the catastrophic reaction model is examined from its phenomenological and existential …
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"Every day is difficult for my body and my heart." Forced evictions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Women's narratives of risk and resilience
… the exigencies of displacement? I use Stress and Coping Theory to frame analysis of the narratives of evicted women in order to understand their lived experiences and pathways of adaptation. Analysis of 27 interviews with 22 women demonstrated highly diverse experiences and divergent outcomes. I …
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Stress and coping among adolescent diabetics
The relationship between coping and adjustment, optimism, and frequency of blood glucose monitoring was examined in 99 adolescents (88 female, 11 male). Participants were between the ages of 12 and 18 with a mean age of 14.8 years. Mean duration of diabetes at the time of participation was 5.3 …
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God in times of adversity: A mixed-methods study investigating the relationship between religious coping and identification on the trauma appraisals and world assumptions of Muslim refugees/asylum seekers
… of pre-trauma beliefs on trauma appraisals and coping mechanisms. Worldview-based models propose that traumas shatter fundamental world assumptions, resulting in a search for meaning. Religion provides one way of offering meaning for individuals during times of distress. This research aimed to …
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Consequences of Marijuana Use for Depressive Disorders
… results of this study provide no support for the coping theory. There is a clear pattern of comorbidity of both, mental disorders, and substance use and abuse.
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"A Walk Through the Jungle at Twilight": How Parents Experience a Transition to Adolescence
… to examine parents' experiences. Family systems theory and family stress and coping theory provided a theoretical starting point. Participants were recruited who had adolescents between ages 13 and 16 and saw their family as normally stressed, indicated in part by an absence of court involvement, …
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Toward a Model of 12-Step Engagement: Predicting Recovery Involvement in Narcotics Anonymous
… of 12-step organizations have been theory-driven. Theory-based models of recovery provide a more comprehensive view of the range of individual factors affecting individuals in recovery and how and why they might engage in recovery-related behaviors. Stress and coping theory fills a …
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An Examination of Alcohol Use in the Gastric Bypass Patient
… issues (depressive symptomatology, anxiety, coping) and demographic variables. Theoretical Framework: Coping serves as an underlying theory that may explain the use of alcohol in the gastric bypass patient and the impact on post-surgery behaviors. Coping theory guided the formation of the …
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The Impact of Role Identity Transitions and Coping Functions on Customer Citizenship Behavior
… than others is important. Using role salience theory, this dissertation contributes to the CCB literature by investigating the influence of customers' role identity transitions (i.e., gaining role identities vs. losing role identities) on CCB. Furthermore, it attempts to explain these effects …
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Adapting to Prison Life
… in particular the relationship between early coping styles and later levels of psychological health' and homesickness. The research was conducted in two parts. The first was a preliminary study to modify a homesickness questionnaire (Archer et al, 1998) for use within a prison population. The …
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The experience of dental avoidance
… and Folkman's (1984) stress, appraisal and coping theory, were examined. This study supports the transactional nature of the three models. As well, this study demonstrates many of the health-related behaviours identified by these model. However, it suggests that these models are simplistic …
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Hubungan strategi coping dengan tingkat premenstrual syndrome pada mahasiswi Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
… yang muncul atau lebih dikenal dengan coping. Berdasarkan wawancara pada mahasiswi diketahui bahwa mereka mengalami gejala PMS seperti nyeri pada pinggul, paha dan kaki, payudara mengencang, sakit pada perut, pusing, mual, kebiasaan ngemil bertambah, perasaan malas, cemas, gelisah, …