A count of coping strategies: A longitudinal study investigating an alternative method to understanding coping and adjustment.

ABSTRACT: Researchers recently have suggested that coping flexibility (i.e., an individual's ability to modify and change coping strategies depending on the context) may be an important way to investigate coping. The availability of numerous coping strategies may be an important precursor to coping flexibility, given that flexibility can only be obtained if an individual is able to access and use different coping strategies. Typically, studies examining the use of coping strategies compute means-based analyses, which assess not only what strategies are used but also how much they are used. Thus, there is limited ability to differentiate between individuals who use a lot of strategies infrequently, and individuals who use only one or two strategies a lot. One way to address this confound is to count

SUBMITTER: Heffer T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5642021 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature