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  • Health and Well-being Research

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  • Proactive coping is crucial for health and well-being.
  • Its temporal stability and sensitivity to life events remain underexplored.
  • Existing conceptualizations focus on trait-like, state-like, or process-oriented aspects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the variability and stability of proactive coping dimensions.
  • To examine the influence of life events, specifically unemployment, on proactive coping.
  • To integrate trait, state, and process-oriented approaches to coping.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized monthly panel data from two cohorts of German job seekers (N=1540, N=909).
  • Employed a latent-state-trait model with autoregressive effects for analysis.

Main Results:

  • Proactive coping exhibited high temporal stability, predominantly driven by dispositional (trait) factors.
  • Situation-specific influences on proactive coping were minimal.
  • Unemployment did not significantly affect proactive coping levels.
  • Results were consistent across both study cohorts.

Conclusions:

  • Proactive coping is a highly stable construct over time, persisting through employment and unemployment.
  • While largely stable, proactive coping possesses a dynamic component influenced by situational factors.