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The Relationship between Eysenck Personality Traits, Cognitive Appraisals and Coping Strategies with Adolescents' Mood
Barbara KALEBIĆ MAGLICA
Sažetak
The purpose of this research is to find out how character
traits, cognitive appraisals, and strategies of coping with
school-related stressful situations affect mood. The research
was conducted on a sample of 545 elementary and high-
-school students. In the first part of the research, students
were asked to fill out a personality survey and in the second part they were asked to remember the most stressful situation
they experienced during the past month. Then they evaluated
how stressful and threatening the situation was, whether they
were able to control it, how they dealt with it and how they
felt after it was over. Empirically, the research widens current
knowledge by referring to the simultaneous influence of
Eysenck personality traits. It also refers to a variable
contribution of cognitive appraisals and the importance for a
coping strategy in situations connected to school.
Theoretically, this research supports the Lazarus transactional
model of stress and coping, while the practical contribution
of this research applies to the possibility of conducting
change, i.e. training effective mechanisms of coping to
facilitate better functioning – adaptation of students to their
environment.
Ključne riječi
personality traits; cognitive appraisals; coping; mood; adolescents
Hrčak ID:
19172
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2007.
Posjeta: 2.763 *