Identifier	Thesis 1897
Author	Barganier, Diane A.
Title	Does coping mediate the relationship between personality and subjective well being?
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date of Publication	2007
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Abstract	Coping with everyday life stressors is a salient topic in our fast-paced society. The field of Health Psychology has an active interest in the study of personality in the stress and coping process, and its relationship to well-being. The present study investigated whether types of coping (problem-focused or emotion-focused) mediated the relation between the personality dimensions of neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness; and well-being. Graduate students, workplace employees, mall shoppers, and residents of Rocky Hill (N=142) completed a survey packet that included the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWL; Diener et. al, 1985), the General Well-Being Schedule (GWB; Fazio, 1977), the NEO-FFI (Costa & McCrae, 1989), and the Brief Coping Orientation to Problem Scale (Brief COPE; Carver, 1997). Correlations supported hypotheses that extraversion and conscientiousness would be positively related to well-being, and that neuroticism would be negatively related to well-being. Multiple regression analyses supported hypotheses that individuals high in neuroticism would be more likely to use emotion-focused coping, and that individuals high in extraversion and conscientiousness would be more likely to use problem-focused coping. There was partial support based on regression analyses for the hypothesis that coping would mediate the personality/well-being relationships, in that some evidence for problem-focused coping and conscientiousness using the GWB was found. The present study explored dispositional coping styles, i.e., how people typically cope with stressors. Coping, however, is a dynamic process, and future research may consider a longitudinal approach to more fully explore coping patterns and mediating effects.
Subject	Adjustment (Psychology) Personality Well-being
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Conway, James
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734395
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