Role of Personality and Positive and Negative Affects in Coping Strategies of Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study

Nurses are exposed to many highly stressful events. Individual variables, such as personality and affective state, have been related to vulnerability to maladaptive coping. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to analyze the relationships between the personality, positive and negative affects, and coping strategies of nurses and to establish the mediating role of affective state in the relationship between personality and coping. The sample was made up of 1,268 Spanish nurses aged 22–63 years who completed the Coping Strategies Inventory, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the 10-item Big Five Inventory. Descriptive analyses, correlations, and mediation models were estimated. The results showed relationships between the Big Five personality factors, positive and negative affects, and coping strategies. Negative affect was confirmed as a mediator between personality and less adaptive strategies and positive affect was confirmed on positive strategies. This study emphasizes the need to develop actions directed at teaching nurses adequate problem-solving strategies and training them in the ability to assign a different emotional value to complex situations.

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The Role of Stressful Events in the Relationship Between Positive and Negative Affects: Evidence From Field and Experimental Studies

Journal of Personality ◽

10.1111/1467-6494.00121 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 68 (5) ◽

pp. 927-951 ◽

Cited By ~ 68

Author(s):

Alex J. Zautra ◽

John W. Reich ◽

Mary C. Davis ◽

Phillip T. Potter ◽

Nancy A. Nicolson

Keyword(s):

Experimental Studies ◽

Stressful Events ◽

Negative Affects ◽

The Relationship ◽

Positive And Negative Affects

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Wise functioning and coping strategies in adolescents: Age as an intervening variable

Educational Psychology ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0012.4758 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 55 (13) ◽

pp. 102-120

Author(s):

Małgorzata Szcześniak ◽

Wojciech Rodzeń ◽

Agnieszka Malinowska ◽

Laura Kaliczyńska ◽

Agata H. Świątek

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Implicit Theories ◽

Stressful Events ◽

The Core ◽

And Coping ◽

The Way

As we know relatively little about the development of wisdom in youth, the following study was designed to examine whether and how wise functioning would predict coping strategies in adolescents. As layperson’s implicit theories of wisdom suggest that wisdom varies by age, we wanted to see if and how age might correlate with wisdom, and examine the role of age as a mediator between wisdom and coping. Consequently, this article provides some initial evidence indicating that wise thinking, behaving, and age are related to coping strategies. It seems that wise individuals act when confronted with adversity and obstacles, focusing on the benefits that follow from stressful events. At the same time, they try to avoid using responses that are commonly considered less adaptive or immature: denial or substance use. These choices may be related to the equilibrium between knowledge and doubt that is believed to be the core of wisdom. Therefore, being wise lies not in what is known, but rather in the way in which the knowledge is used in everyday life and experienced as time passes by.

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Positive and Negative Affects and Coping Strategies in Patients with Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizure, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Control Groups

Biomedical & Pharmacology Journal ◽

10.13005/bpj/591 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 133-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Asra Bagherzade ◽

Arash mani ◽

Ali firoozabadi ◽

Aliakbar asadipooya

Keyword(s):

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Temporal Lobe ◽

Epileptic Seizure ◽

Control Groups ◽

Negative Affects ◽

And Coping ◽

And Control ◽

Positive And Negative Affects

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A Descriptive Analysis of Psychological Factors and Childhood Trauma in a Sample of Suicide Attempters

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.02.162 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. S292-S292

Author(s):

C. Delicato ◽

E. Gattoni ◽

S. Di Marco ◽

A. Venesia ◽

C. Vecchi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Suicide Attempt ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Childhood Trauma ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Personality Factors ◽

Suicidal Behaviors ◽

Suicide Attempters ◽

Increased Risk ◽

And Coping

IntroductionChildhood trauma, especially sexual abuse, is associated with an increased risk of suicidal behavior. However, studies also show that according to the stress-vulnerability model, not all individual exposed to this kind of trauma exhibit suicidal behaviors as some protective factors could diminish the aforementioned risk, such as personality factors. Resilience might be one such a protective factor. Furthermore, there has been growing evidence to support the role of impulsive and aggressive behavior in the risk of suicide.ObjectivesTo compare suicide attempters to non-suicide attempters (patients admitted for any other reason) for as far as psychological features and childhood trauma. To verify the role of resilience and coping strategies as protective factor for suicide attempt, mitigating the risk of an individual who has experienced childhood trauma.MethodsWe recruited patients referred to the inpatient and outpatient facilities of psychiatry ward of “Maggiore della Carità” hospital in Novara during the period November 2015–December 2016. We included all patients from 18 to 65 years with a psychiatric disorder that met DSM–5 diagnostic criteria. For the analysis, we divided patients into two subgroups according to the presence/absence of suicidal behaviors. The assessment included: Resilience Scale for Adult (RSA), Brief cope, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (RSES), childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ), temperament and character inventory (TCI).Results and discussionAlthough, the recruitment is still ongoing preliminary results seem to confirm the role of resilience and coping strategies as protective factor mitigating the risk of an individual who has experienced childhood trauma from making a suicide attempt.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Affective state of ethnic community as related to gender and marital status

Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences ◽

10.3329/dujbs.v22i2.46291 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 155-161

Author(s):

Abu Yusuf Mahmud ◽

AKM Rezaul Karim ◽

SH Mahmud

Keyword(s):

Negative Affect ◽

Positive Affect ◽

Marital Status ◽

Affective State ◽

Ethnic Community ◽

Multiple Regressions ◽

Negative Affects ◽

Married Individuals ◽

Standard Deviations ◽

Positive And Negative Affects

The study was aimed at understanding the affective state of Bangladeshi ethnic community in relation to gender and marital status. Towards this end, positive and negative affects of 103 adult indigenous persons were measured. Analysis of data in multiple regressions demonstrated that both gender and marital status are significantly associated with positive affect (Gender: β = 0.318, p < 0.001; Marital status: β = 0.201, p < 0.05) but not with negative affect. Results indicated that the indigenous males have 0.32 standard deviations increased positive affect as compared to the indigenous females and that married individuals have 0.20 standard deviations increased positive affect as compared to their unmarried counterparts. Along with previous studies the present study advances the understanding that gender and marital status inequalities in affect are not specific to a particular community; rather it is a generalized picture of all societies. In general, men possess more positive affect than females; married persons possess more positive affect than the unmarried persons. Dhaka Univ. J. Biol. Sci. 22(2): 155-161, 2013 (July)

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Stressful events, social support, and coping strategies

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e683152011-510 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Ching-I Lin ◽

Melanie D. Hetzel-Riggin

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Stressful Events ◽

And Coping

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Online Gambling Activity, Pay-to-Win Payments, Motivation to Gamble and Coping Strategies as Predictors of Gambling Disorder Among e-sports Bettors

Journal of Gambling Studies ◽

10.1007/s10899-021-10015-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bernadeta Lelonek-Kuleta ◽

Rafał Piotr Bartczuk

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Predictive Model ◽

Gambling Disorder ◽

Online Gambling ◽

Gambling Activity ◽

Psychological Variables ◽

Betting Behavior ◽

Game Session ◽

And Coping

AbstractResearch on esports activity usually captures it from the perspective of involvement in gaming. This study presents the results of the first research in Poland (N = 438) on esports betting (ESB). ESB is compared to other forms of e-gambling and involvement in pay-to-win games. The aim was to build a predictive model of gambling disorder among people betting on esports. A predictive model of gambling disorder based on ordinal regression was built, including sociodemographic variables, involvement in esports betting, involvement in other Internet activities connected to ESB, as well as psychological variables—motivation to gamble and coping strategies. The results showed that gambling disorder among esports bettors is associated with time spent on one game session, placing other forms of online gambling bets once a week or more often, and paying in pay-to-win games. Gambling disorder was also predicted by escape coping strategies and lower engaged strategies as well as financial and coping motivation to bet on esports results. The results show the crucial role of psychological factors (motivation, coping) in the development of esports betting addiction. Esports betting is an activity associated with both gambling and gaming—involvement in both activities explains the development of ESB addiction. There is a need for further research focused on the specificity of esports betting behavior to discover the direction of links among gaming, gambling, and esports gambling.

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