Stress, anxiety and coping: The multidimensional interaction model.

作者：Norman S. Endler · 发表于：Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne · 年份：1997 · DOI：10.1037/0708-5591.38.3.136 · 被引用次数：213 · 研究领域：Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development、Mental Health Research Topics、Health, psychology, and well-being

Donald O.Hebb Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a ScienCe (1997) / Prix Donald O. Hebb pour contribution remarquable a la psychologie en tant que science (1997)AbstractThe multidimensional interaction model of stress, anxiety and coping processes is discussed and tested. aim is to advance our understanding of the systematic nature of coping processes in relation to psychological variables such as anxiety, as well as to determine how coping is related to other personality and situational variables, and to physical and mental well being. Coping styles and strategies mediate between antecedent stressful events, and such consequences as anxiety, psychological distress and somatic complaints.Task-oriented coping is most efficacious in a controllable situation, while emotion-oriented coping is most efficacious in an uncontrollable situation. While avoidance-oriented coping may be initially appropriate as a reaction to stress, in the long run task-oriented coping is most efficacious. A number of laboratory studies assessing the multidimensional interaction model are reviewed. These studies have both theoretical and practical implications, and contribute to empirical knowledge about stress, coping processes, and personality.PrologueIt gives me great pleasure to be the 1997 recipient of the Canadian Psychological Association Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Science. It is doubly delicious because of my past associations with Mc...