학술논문
Threats to communion and agency mediate associations between stressor type and daily coping.
Document Type
Academic Journal
Author
Pow J; a Department of Psychology , University of British Columbia , Vancouver , BC , Canada.; Lee-Baggley D; b Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre , Halifax , NS , Canada.; DeLongis A; a Department of Psychology , University of British Columbia , Vancouver , BC , Canada.
Source
Publisher: Routledge Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9212242 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1477-2205 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10615806 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Anxiety Stress Coping Subsets: MEDLINE
Subject
Language
English
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Basic human values have been categorized into two dimensions: those that are self or agentically focused, and those that are other or communally focused. We apply this model to cognitive appraisals of stress and argue that threat appraisals also fall into these two dimensions. The mediating roles of communal and agentic threats in linking stressors with coping responses were examined.
Design: A daily process methodology was used.
Methods: Three-hundred and fifty undergraduate students were followed midday and evening over one week, completing structured electronic diaries regarding their experiences of the past half-day. Participants described stressors in open-ended format, which were then coded into social stress, achievement stress, and other stress categories. They also completed scales measuring stress appraisals and coping.
Results: Communal threat mediated links between social stressors and empathic responding, support seeking, and confrontation. Agentic threat mediated links between achievement stressors and empathic responding, support seeking, confrontation, and problem solving.
Conclusions: Individuals tend to cope in ways that maintain communion when they perceive communion to be threatened; they tend to cope in ways that maintain agency when they perceive agency to be threatened.
Design: A daily process methodology was used.
Methods: Three-hundred and fifty undergraduate students were followed midday and evening over one week, completing structured electronic diaries regarding their experiences of the past half-day. Participants described stressors in open-ended format, which were then coded into social stress, achievement stress, and other stress categories. They also completed scales measuring stress appraisals and coping.
Results: Communal threat mediated links between social stressors and empathic responding, support seeking, and confrontation. Agentic threat mediated links between achievement stressors and empathic responding, support seeking, confrontation, and problem solving.
Conclusions: Individuals tend to cope in ways that maintain communion when they perceive communion to be threatened; they tend to cope in ways that maintain agency when they perceive agency to be threatened.