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Coping as a personality process: a prospective study.

N Bolger1

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Colorado 80208.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
|September 1, 1990
PubMed
Summary

Personality traits like neuroticism influence how individuals cope with stress. This study found neuroticism affects coping strategies and anxiety levels during stressful medical school exams, but not exam performance.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Stress and Coping Research
  • Personality Psychology

Background:

  • Coping mechanisms are crucial for managing stress.
  • The role of personality traits in shaping coping strategies under duress requires further investigation.
  • Understanding the interplay between personality, coping, and psychological outcomes is vital.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if neuroticism manifests in coping patterns during a high-stakes stressor.
  • To determine if neuroticism's influence on coping mediates changes in anxiety and academic performance.
  • To examine the temporal dynamics of personality, coping, and anxiety.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study design involving 50 premedical students.
  • Self-report measures of coping strategies at multiple time points before and after a medical school entrance examination.
  • Daily anxiety assessments over a 35-day period surrounding the examination.

Main Results:

  • Neuroticism significantly influenced coping efforts and daily anxiety increases under stress.
  • Specific coping strategies, namely wishful thinking and self-blame, accounted for over 50% of the association between neuroticism and pre-examination anxiety.
  • Neither neuroticism nor specific coping strategies impacted final examination performance.

Conclusions:

  • Coping is demonstrably personality in action under stress.
  • Neuroticism shapes adaptive and maladaptive coping responses to academic pressure.
  • While neuroticism affects anxiety, it does not appear to directly impair performance on stressful examinations.

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