How does social complexity facilitate coping flexibility? The mediating role of dialectical thinking.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2022.2117304

Hilary K Y Ng, Sylvia Xiaohua Chen

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Abstract

Background and objective: Past research has shown that worldviews can influence coping strategies but coping is often regarded as a stable person-based behavioral characteristic. The present research aims to examine how one component of worldviews - social complexity - influences the flexibility of coping strategies across situations.

Design: In two cross-sectional studies and one prospective study, we tested a mediation model in which the perceived complexity of the social world (i.e., social complexity) predicted coping flexibility through dialectical thinking.

Results: Across three studies, social complexity consistently facilitated dialectical thinking, which in turn fostered the cross-situational flexibility of coping strategies at a single time point and over 12 months.

Conclusions: Believing in complex causes of phenomena and multiple solutions to problems facilitates a cognitive style of viewing issues from multiple perspectives and tolerating contradictions, which are conducive to the flexible evaluation and implementation of effective strategies to cope with problems. Theoretical and practical implications of the present research are discussed.

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社会复杂性如何促进应对灵活性?辩证思维的中介作用。

背景与目的:过去的研究表明，世界观可以影响应对策略，但应对通常被认为是一种稳定的基于个人的行为特征。本研究旨在探讨世界观的一个组成部分——社会复杂性——如何影响不同情况下应对策略的灵活性。设计:在两项横断面研究和一项前瞻性研究中，我们测试了一个中介模型，其中社会世界的感知复杂性(即社会复杂性)通过辩证思维预测应对灵活性。结果:在三个研究中，社会复杂性持续促进辩证思维，这反过来又促进了应对策略在单一时间点和12个月内的跨情境灵活性。结论:相信现象产生的原因是复杂的，问题的解决方法是多种多样的，有利于形成多角度看待问题、包容矛盾的认知风格，有利于灵活评估和实施有效的问题应对策略。讨论了本研究的理论和实践意义。

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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.