Importance of stressful events moderates dispositional optimism, pessimism and coping strategies
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[Importance of stressful events moderates dispositional optimism, pessimism and coping strategies].
Prior research has reported that dispositional optimists tend to take approach-type coping strategies in response to health threats, and as a result, experience positive health benefits. This study investigated whether dispositional optimism or pessimism interacted with the importance that a participant assigned to stressful events to predict their coping behavior. College students (N = 178) pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Japanese journal of psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0021-5236,1884-1082
DOI: 10.4992/jjpsy.85.13032