Coping strategy-situation fit vs. present control: relations with perceived stress in U.S. college students.

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-26 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2023.2217099

Abby I Person, Patricia A Frazier

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Abstract

Background: According to the strategy-situation fit hypothesis, it is adaptive to match coping strategies to the controllability of stressors. Although early research generally supported this hypothesis, recent findings have been inconsistent. The goals of this study were to test the strategy-situation fit hypothesis, addressing limitations of past research, and compare it to an alternative hypothesis from the temporal model of control (i.e., to focus on what one can control rather than matching coping strategies to control appraisals).

Design and methods: College students (n = 159) completed measures assessing their stressors, coping strategies, stressor controllability, perceived control over present aspects of stressors, and perceived stress. Data were collected via online surveys in Fall 2020.

Results: Consistent with the strategy-situation fit hypothesis, using a higher ratio of problem-solving coping for more controllable stressors was associated with less stress. However, using more emotion-focused coping for less controllable stressors was not associated with less stress. In addition, focusing on what one could control in the present was associated with less stress, above and beyond strategy-situation fit.

Conclusions: It may be more adaptive to focus on what one can control in the present than to match coping styles to stressor controllability.

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应对策略--情境适应与当前控制：与美国大学生感知压力的关系。

背景：根据策略-情境契合假说，应对策略与压力源的可控性相匹配是适应性的。虽然早期的研究普遍支持这一假说，但近期的研究结果并不一致。本研究的目的是检验策略-情境契合假说，解决过去研究的局限性，并将其与时间控制模型的另一种假说（即关注自己可以控制的事情，而不是将应对策略与控制评估相匹配）进行比较：大学生（n = 159）完成了对其压力源、应对策略、压力源可控性、对压力源当前方面的感知控制以及感知压力的评估。数据是在2020年秋季通过在线调查收集的：结果：与策略-情境契合假说一致的是，对可控性较高的压力源采用较高比例的问题解决型应对策略与压力较小有关。然而，对可控性较低的压力源使用更多的情绪应对策略与压力减少无关。此外，除了策略-情境契合度之外，关注当下可以控制的事情也与减轻压力有关：结论：关注当下可以控制的事情可能比根据压力源的可控性来选择应对方式更具适应性。

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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.