Introducing and evaluating a performance-based approach to coping flexibility: assessing repertoire breadth and situation-strategy fit.

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2025.2529829

Brianna Preiser, L E Bradley, Anthony Papa

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Background and objectives: The Cognitive Transactional Model of Coping suggests coping is maximized when individuals respond flexibly to situational demands. Directly testing the coping flexibility hypothesis is contingent on developing measures to capture the person-situation transactional process of coping. This study assessed the validity of a new performance-based approach to measuring coping flexibility and examined its contribution to predicting life satisfaction and psychological distress above existing measures.

Design and methods: 343 participants (52% male, 68% white) presented with two stressor scenarios were asked to describe how they would respond. Qualitative responses were coded to assess the breadth of individual coping repertoires and fit between the situation and strategy.

Results: The measurement approach effectively captured the varying demands of the stressor scenarios. Situation-strategy fit predicted increased life satisfaction and decreased psychological distress above existing coping flexibility measures. Contrary to prediction, the breadth of coping repertoires predicted decreased life satisfaction and increased psychological distress.

Conclusions: The current study introduced a performance-based approach for coping flexibility and supported situation-strategy fit as an important component. A more sophisticated operationalization of repertoire is needed to delineate variability in coping responses that indicate flexibility from haphazard coping.

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引入和评估基于绩效的应对灵活性方法：评估剧目广度和情境战略契合度。

背景与目的：应对的认知交易模型表明，当个体对情境需求做出灵活反应时，应对能力达到最大化。直接测试应对灵活性假设取决于开发捕捉应对的人-情境交易过程的措施。本研究评估了一种新的基于绩效的应对灵活性测量方法的有效性，并检验了它对预测生活满意度和心理困扰的贡献。设计和方法：343名参与者（52%男性，68%白人）被要求描述他们将如何应对两种压力源场景。对定性回答进行编码，以评估个体应对技能的广度以及情境与策略之间的契合度。结果：该测量方法有效地捕捉了应激源情境的不同需求。情境策略契合比现有的应对灵活性措施更能预测生活满意度的提高和心理困扰的减少。与预测相反，应对技能的广度预示着生活满意度的下降和心理困扰的增加。结论：本研究提出了一种基于绩效的应对灵活性方法，支持情境策略契合是一个重要组成部分。需要更复杂的曲目操作来描述应对反应的可变性，表明随机应对的灵活性。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Multiple-

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.