Coping Effectiveness as an Explanation of the Relationship Between Personality and Affect in Daily Stressful Circumstances
Year: 1994
Type: article
Abstract: A stress and coping framework was used to find mediators between Neuroticism and Extraversion and negative and positive mood.Neurotic people's use of disengaged coping strategies in response to daily stressors could mediate the personalityaffect relationship.Similarly, use of effective, approach coping strategies could mediate the Extraversion and positive affect relationship.140 female hospital and university employees completed measures of baseline mood, personality, and life events.For 4 days, they rated their mood following a stressful event.Each evening, they rated their mood, the stressor and their coping.Coping strategies mediated relationships between personality, stress, and mood.The effects were stronger for Neuroticism than for Extraversion.Few moderating effects were seen.Disengaged coping was affected by and amplified negative mood, while engaged coping enhanced positive mood.Structural equation modeling (LISREL) was used to test the overall model linking personality, coping strategies and mood.iii 8. Disengaged and Engaged coping will moderate the relationships between Neuroticism and affect in a similar manner as 6 and 7. See Figure 3.Analyses: As in 6 and 7, except that the correlation will be between neuroticism and later afect.9. Finally, Engaged and Disengaged coping will moderate the relationships between affect one evening and affect the next evening, similar to 7. Analyses: As in 7.
Source: Summit (Simon Fraser University)
Author: Andrew Brian Grady
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2292915314