Coping Complexity Model: Coping Stressors, Coping Influencing Factors, and Coping Responses

Coping Complexity Model: Coping Stressors, Coping Influencing Factors, and Coping Responses

Aim: To describe the complex phenomena of coping involving the stressors, influencing factors, and responses of coping via a mid-range theory Background: Previous models have presented the concepts of coping, this model expands previous models, creates a revision which is more complex and more comprehensive than previous work. Design: Model includes components of initial stressors, key critical...

Coping with Complexity

W e offer a new typology of problems according to such a t t r ibutes as the fuzzy set of possible solutions, the fuzzy set of properties a solution should have, the fuzzy set of knowledge necessary and sufficient to find a solution, deadlines and constraints. Problems are ranked by degree of ' s t ructuredness ' f rom well-s tructured to ill-defined. Some real problems are shown to be ill-defi...

Coping with Complexity

Gender and coping: the dual-axis model of coping.

Examined a dual-axis model of coping that included both action (active vs. passive) and social dimensions (prosocial vs. antisocial) of coping strategies among a combined sample of students and community residents. We developed an assessment device to represent the model and allow investigation. Mixed support for the model and instrument were noted. Women were more prosocial than men in their c...

Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty

The computational and heuristic strategies used by decision makers to manage uncertainty in complex systems originated with the early landmark contributions of J. von Neumann. These contributions took the form of artificial intelligence and artificial life concepts, and then evolved more specifically into game theory, expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms and evolutionary computat...