Assessing coping flexibility in real-life and laboratory settings: A multimethod approach.
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 80 (5) , 814-833
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.80.5.814
Abstract
This research sought to formulate a theoretically based conceptualization of coping flexibility and to adopt a multimethod approach in assessing this construct. A self-report daily measure and an experiment were designed geared to theoretical and empirical grounds. The new daily measure was used in Study 1 to examine coping flexibility in a life transition. Findings showed individual differences in patterns of coping flexibility across different real-life stressful events. In Study 2, coping flexibility was examined in both real-life and laboratory settings. Results replicated those of Study 1 and further revealed consistency between the self-report and the experiment data. Study 3 extended previous studies by adopting a longitudinal design over a 3-month time span. Participants' flexibility in coping with laboratory tasks was found to predict how flexible they would be in handling real-life stressful events.Keywords
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