Does trait coping exist? A momentary assessment approach to the evaluation of traits

被引:113
作者
Schwartz, JE
Neale, J
Marco, C
Shiffman, SS
Stone, AA
机构
[1] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[2] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Psychol, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[3] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Psychiat, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
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10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.360
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
This study investigated the extent to which momentary reports of coping are a traitlike phenomenon and the validity of a questionnaire assessment of coping style. Participants (N = 96) completed the questionnaire, then monitored stressful events and coping activities for 2 days using a hand-held computer that administered a brief assessment every 40 min. Momentary reports exhibited a sizable traitlike component: individual differences accounted for 42% of the variance for 2 coping items and 15-30% of the variance for 15 items. The questionnaire assessment of coping style was a poor predictor of average momentary coping; the coping style measure and the aggregated momentary measure of trait coping shared 23% of their variance for religion and 0-12% for the 16 other coping measures. Self-report assessments of trait coping are poor measures of the trait component of momentary coping and very poor predictors of coping in specific situations.
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页码:360 / 369
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