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Coping : the Psychology of What Works.

Most people take the process of coping for granted as they go about their daily activities. In many ways, coping is like breathing, an automatic process requiring no apparent effort. However, when people face truly threatening events--what psychologists call stressors--they become acutely aware of t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snyder, C. R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1: Coping; Getting Out of a Rabbit Trap and Other Acts of Coping; What Is Coping?; Other Times, Other Names; Who Has Studied Coping?; Coping in Perspective; 2: Reality Negotiation and Coping; Reality Negotiation Defined; Reality Negotiation in Historical Context; Individual Differences in Reality Negotiation; Reality-Negotiation Tactics: An Overview; Reality Negotiation as Coping; Reality Negotiation and Social Support in Coping With Illness and Disability; Summary and Conclusions.
  • 3: Coping and Ego DepletionNature of Ego Depletion; Stress, Coping, and Ego Depletion; Consequences of Stress and Coping; Replenishing the Resource; Why Does Social Support Work?; Conclusion and Summary; 4: Sharing One's Story; The Basic Paradigm and Results; Factors Related to Effectiveness of Story Sharing; The Clinical Benefit of Emotional Writing; Why Does Writing or Talking about Emotional Experiences Influence Health?; How Can We Use Writing about Emotional Experiences as a Coping Tool?; 5: Focusing on Emotion; Converging Lines of Evidence on the Utility of Emotion.
  • Emotional Approach Coping in Stress and Coping Theory and ResearchCoping through Emotional Approach: Directions for Theory, Research, and Application; Conclusion; 6: Personality, Affectivity, and Coping; The Dispositional Basis of Coping; Coping in Relation to General Traits of Personality; Personality, Coping, and Adaptational Outcomes; Implications and Conclusions; 7: Coping Intelligently; The Origins of Emotional Intelligence; The Emotional Intelligence Framework; Attempts to Measure Emotional Intelligence; A Hierarchy of Emotional Coping; Emotional Intelligence and the Coping Process.
  • The Application of Emotional IntelligenceTeaching Emotional Literacy in the Classroom; Conclusion; 8: Learned Optimism in Children; Childhood Depression; Helplessness and Pessimism; Challenging Pessimism; 9: Optimism; Expectancy-Value Models of Motivation; Possible Origins of Optimism and Pessimism; Optimism and Subjective Well-Being Under Adversity; Optimism, Pessimism, and Coping; Pessimism and Health-Defeating Behaviors; Is Optimism Always Better than Pessimism?; Can Pessimists Become Optimists?; Concluding Comment; 10: Hoping; Hope in Historical Perspective; Measuring Hope.
  • Individual Differences in Hope and Markers of Successful CopingInterventions for Hope and Markers of Successful Coping; Hope and the ISMs: Sexism, Racism, and Ageism; Future Directions of Hope Research and Applications; 11: Mastery-Oriented Thinking; Helpless and Mastery-Oriented Coping Styles; Students' Achievement Coals; Students' Theories of Intelligence; Theories of Intelligence and School Achievement; How Early Do These Patterns Begin?; Implications and Future Directions; Conclusion; 12: Coping with Catastrophes and Catastrophizing; Catastrophes; Catastrophizing.