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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"coping strategy"”.
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Examining Positive Distraction as a Coping Strategy for Chronic Stress
… emotion. It blends elements of disengagement coping (historically maladaptive) with elements of positive emotional coping (historically adaptive) and has been relatively understudied in the context of chronic stressors. This dissertation represents one of the first attempts to characterize the …
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Activism as a coping strategy among parents of children with cancer
… is a lifelong, whole-family diagnosis. The coping strategies employed by parents of children with cancer have implications for the family system both during and after their diagnosed child’s treatment. The current study found that activism, or actions taken on behalf of the greater childhood …
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Believing you have it worse than others: maximization- a coping strategy
… examined the use of a heretofore unstudied coping strategy in which people maximize negative life events they have experienced. Maximization is defined as the process of comparing oneself to others on the number or intensity of negative life events one is experiencing, with the goal of …
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THE USE OF HUMOR IN SELF-DISCLOSURE: A COPING STRATEGY FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
… received support from conversational partners, coping humor, humor orientation and perceived stress. Results indicated that humor was positively associated with emotional improvement. Mediation analyses revealed that the positive relationship between humor and emotional improvement was mediated …
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Religiosity and well-being: meaning in life as coping strategy in Korean-American Judeo-Christian adolescents
… cognitive understanding of meaning in life as coping strategy utilized by Korean-American Judeo-Christian adolescents between the ages of 11 to 18 (<em>n</em> = 74) and (b) to determine the significance of meaning in life in relations to subjective well-being. Initial hypothesis about "born …
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Coping with Customer Sexual Harassment: Examining Retaliation as a Coping Strategy and Testing a Contextual Model
… The first sought to operationalize a measure of coping with customer sexual harassment. In addition to three traditional factors of sexual harassment coping (i.e., external, internal, and social), Study 1 predicted that worker retaliation toward the customer would constitute an additional form of …
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Interaction Of Severity Of Stressor And Coping Strategy On Psychological Distress From A Psychological Flexibility Conceptualization
… (APA, 2007). When stressed, people engage in coping strategies that differentially affect psychological distress. Psychologically flexible coping is associated with more positive outcomes (e.g., Ruiz, 2010; Sturmey, 2009), while psychologically inflexible strategies have been linked to greater …
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A STUDY OF OPTIMISM, COPING STRATEGY, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG WHITE, KOREAN, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE OLDER ADULTS
… study examined the association between coping strategies and psychological quality of life (QOL), considering optimism among three ethnic female older adult groups. A total of 373 community-dwelling female older adults over age 65, including 124 White Americans, 124 Korean Americans and …
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Interaction Of Coping And Severity Of Stressor From An Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Conceptualization
… respectively) (ACHA, 2012). People engage in coping strategies when stressed that can affect their perceived psychological distress differently. Strategies associated with psychological flexibility (e.g., acceptance and behavioral activation) are associated with more positive outcomes (e.g., …
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Strain, coping, and adaptation in early adolescence
Role strain, coping, and adaptational outcomes were examined for a sample of 205 eighth grade adolescents. Differences by gender and family type on amount of role strain, use of coping strategies, and levels of emotional stress and well-being in family and peer roles were identified. Results …
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Hubungan antara strategi coping (koping) stres dengan bentuk stres mahasiswa baru Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
… berbeda-beda dalam menggunakan strategi Coping. Faktor yang mempengaruhi bentuk stres salah satunya adalah strategi Coping. Strategi Coping adalah salah satu cara untuk mengurangi tekanan yang dihadapi individu ketika mengalami stres. Strategi Coping ada dua yaitu Problem Focused Coping …
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"God will get me through": African American women coping with breast cancer and implications for support groups.
This research examines the coping processes of African American women with breast cancer and how those processes relate to low usage of cancer support groups by these women. Prior coping research has utilized predominantly White samples. The limited research on African American coping responses is …
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Coping strategies used by Indonesian elite badminton players
… inquired about stressors experienced, ways of coping, and their effectiveness. The interviews were conducted in Indonesian language, tape recorded, transcribed verbatim, and the Indonesian transcripts were translated into English by two bilinguals naive to the purpose of the study. The English …
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Trust in Water: An Institutional Analysis of China's Urban Tap Water Provision System
… Based on this argument, the concept of Consumer Coping Strategy Matrix is established with analyses of its seven facilitating factors to explain Chinese tap water consumers’ involvement in the potable water production. Their activities have established a ‘consumer to sip’ potable water production …
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An empirical evaluation of the latent structure of cognitive analgesia strategies
… groups were trained in the use of a cognitive coping strategy. Training consisted of brief practice in strategies involving: a) imaginal reinterpretation of the pain stimulus, b) imaginal distraction from the pain stimulus, c) non-imaginal reinterpretation, or d) non-imaginal distraction. Two …
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HIV diagnosis during pregnancy: stress, coping strategies and experiences of women at selected health facilities in Lusaka district, Zambia.
… the HIV diagnosis and its effects. When positive coping strategies are used, the levels of stress begin to dissipate. Study aim: The study aimed to ascertain the stress levels, coping strategies and experiences of women diagnosed HIV positive during pregnancy at selected Health facilities in …
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HIV diagnosis during pregnancy: stress, coping strategies and experiences of women at selected health facilities in Lusaka district, Zambia.
… the HIV diagnosis and its effects. When positive coping strategies are used, the levels of stress begin to dissipate. Study aim: The study aimed to ascertain the stress levels, coping strategies and experiences of women diagnosed HIV positive during pregnancy at selected Health facilities in …
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Coping Efforts and Efficacy, Acculturation, and Post-Traumatic Symptomatology in Adolescents following Wildfire: A Latent Variable Path Analysis
… of experiencing such an event, and the role of coping in this process may be an important mediating factor. Additionally, several studies have found that girls and African Americans report more distress following disasters than do boys and Caucasians. The current study sought to investigate the …
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Work-family interaction strain: coping strategies used by successful women in the public, corporate and self employed sectors of the economy
… main objective of this study was to identify the coping strategies used by successful women in dealing with work-family interaction strain. The study also investigated cognitive appraisal as a key antecedent of coping with a hypothetical description of a work-family interaction strain situation. A …
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