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Cognitive processes underlying coping flexibility: differentiation and integration.

Cecilia Cheng1, Mike W L Cheung

  • 1Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong. c.cheng@ust.hk

Journal of Personality
|June 17, 2005
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Flexible coping involves differentiating and integrating stress appraisal processes. Individuals coping flexibly use situation-specific cognitive strategies, unlike less flexible copers who use generalized monitoring.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Stress and Coping Research

Background:

  • Flexible coping strategies are crucial for managing diverse stressful situations.
  • Understanding the cognitive appraisal processes underlying coping flexibility is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how individuals formulate flexible coping strategies through differentiation and integration.
  • To identify cognitive differences between flexible and less flexible copers in stress appraisal.

Main Methods:

  • Examined the roles of controllability and impact in differentiating stressful situations.
  • Assessed the integrated strategy of monitoring deployment based on perceived controllability.
  • Compared cognitive processes of participants with varying coping flexibility.

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Main Results:

  • Flexible copers utilized controllability and impact dimensions for situation differentiation.
  • Integrated strategy involved monitoring controllable situations more and uncontrollable ones less.
  • Less flexible copers showed undifferentiated monitoring regardless of situation characteristics.

Conclusions:

  • Coping flexibility is linked to distinct cognitive processes of differentiation and integration.
  • Individuals with higher coping flexibility demonstrate greater differentiation and integration.
  • Findings inform the development of targeted stress management interventions.