The impact of coping flexibility on the risk of depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

According to the dual-process theory, coping flexibility is defined as the ability to produce and implement a new coping strategy in place of an ineffective coping strategy. Specifically, coping flexibility includes two processes: evaluation coping and adaptive coping. Evaluation coping refers to sensitivity to feedback about the efficacy of a coping strategy, and adaptive coping involves the willingness to implement alternative coping strategies. The coping flexibility hypothesis (CFH) postulates that more flexible coping will be associated with more adaptive outcomes; importantly, there are numerous theories and studies that support the CFH. The main purpose of this study was to test the CFH based on dual-process theory.

Methods

A total of 1,770 Japanese college

SUBMITTER: Kato T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4444128 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature