personality and coping (part three)

personality and coping (part one)

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Personality and coping 1 Running Head: PERSONALITY AND COPING

Personality and coping.

Personality psychology addresses views of human nature and individual differences. Biological and goal-based views of human nature provide an especially useful basis for construing coping; the five-factor model of traits adds a useful set of individual differences. Coping-responses to adversity and to the distress that results-is categorized in many ways. Meta-analyses link optimism, extraversi...

Personality and coping strategies during submarine missions.

Relations between personality profiles, measured by the Personality Characteristics Inventory (PCI), and habitual coping strategies, measured by the Utrecht Coping List (UCL), were investigated in a sample of submarine personnel and office employees. The predictive validity of these instruments were examined for reported stress, health complaints, and salivary cortisone measures during 3 submar...

Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 1 - agency, personality and mindscapes

Purpose – This paper aims to develop a new socio-cognitive theory of the normative personality of a plural agency like, for instance, an organisation or a political system. This cybernetic agency theory is connected to Bandura’s theory of psychosocial function. The agency is adaptive and has a normative personality that operates through three formative personality traits, the function of which ...

Coping with Hiv in Relation to Personality

Living with the diagnosis of HIV can be frightening and anxiety producing experience, including the uncertainty of future, fear of death and disfigurement. Two general strategies that people living with HIV/AIDS may useemotion focused coping and/or problem focused coping. Personality characteristics and coping styles reflect differences in appraisal and response to stressors that may influence ...