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Personality and coping.

Charles S Carver¹, Jennifer Connor-Smith

¹Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA. ccarver@miami.edu

Annual Review of Psychology

|July 4, 2009

Summary

Personality traits like optimism and conscientiousness influence coping strategies. Understanding these links helps explain how people manage stress and improve mental health.

Area of Science:

Psychology
Personality Psychology
Health Psychology

Background:

Personality psychology explores human nature and individual differences.
Biological and goal-based views offer frameworks for understanding coping.
The five-factor model provides a structure for individual differences in personality.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the relationship between personality traits and coping strategies.
To investigate how personality and coping influence physical and mental health.
To identify moderators affecting the association between personality and coping.

Main Methods:

Utilized meta-analyses to synthesize findings on personality and coping.
Examined associations between specific traits (e.g., Big Five) and coping responses.

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Published on: September 27, 2020

Investigated the influence of moderators such as age and stressor severity.

Main Results:

Optimism, extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness correlate with engagement coping.
Neuroticism is linked to disengagement coping.
Optimism, conscientiousness, and agreeableness are associated with less disengagement coping.

Conclusions:

Personality traits and coping mechanisms play significant, independent, and interactive roles in health.
Future research should further explore how personality and coping impact stress adjustment.
Nuanced understanding of personality-coping interactions is crucial for mental health interventions.