Review of psychology, Vol. 13 No. 2, 2006.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
Structural equation analyses of personality, appraisals, and coping relationships
Alija Kulenović
Vesna Buško
Sažetak
The study deals with the hypothesized mediating effects of cognitive appraisals on stressfulness of the event in the personality, stress, and coping processes. The relationships between personality measured by NEO-FFI questionnaire, perceived stressfulness of the event, and situation-specific coping measures, were analyzed in a prospective framework with 421 basic military trainees. Analyses of linear structural models partially supported the hypotheses of Lazarus transactional theory on the central mediating role of cognitive appraisal of stress intensity in the relationships between stable antecedents and the ways of coping. Mediating effects of perceived event stressfulness were fully demonstrated for the measure of 'emotion-focused coping' at the beginning of basic training, whereas the latent coping factor of the 'acceptance of situation' proved to be practically independent of the appraised stressfulness. The tested models were the most successful in explaining the variance of emotion-focused coping (64% and 51% at the 1st and 2nd time point, respectively). The models accounted for 24% and 35% of problem solving coping, whereas the acceptance of situation was rather poorly explained by the models (10% of variance in both time points). The results suggest that personality dimensions have more pronounced and direct contribution to the coping variance at the end of basic training that in prediction of measures of initial coping.
Ključne riječi
personality traits; cognitive appraisals; coping; mediating hypothesis; structural equation models
Hrčak ID:
17413
URI
Datum izdavanja:
4.6.2007.
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