| Abstrakt: |
The multiplist approach to personality assessment was used as a general framework to examine daily stressors and ways subjects coped with those stressors. A broad range of behaviors (coping strategies), settings (contexts), occasion (25 to 30 episodes), and respondents (25 professional women in Study 1 and 28 college men in Study 2) were used for a thorough system of description, measurement, and evaluation of coping with daily stress in the naturalistic contexts in which coping occurs. At the individual and group level, general patterns of coping strategies were described, and the relationships between consistency in coping and effectiveness were investigated. Results show that the majority of subjects were consistent in their use of coping strategies, particularly when context was taken into account, and that for the professional women, but not the college men, effectiveness was positively correlated with consistency in coping. |
