Future-orientated coping and personality
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Drummond, Suzie
Brough, Paula
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2016
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Significant progress in both the theoretical and applied aspects of occupational stress has occurred over the past decade, illustrated by the emergence of new research models and their accompanying generation of research activities (e.g., Brough, O'Driscoll, Kalliath, Cooper, & Poelmans, 2009; Demerouti, Bakker, Nachreiner, & Schaufeli, 2001; Dollard, Shimazu, Bin Nordin, Brough, & Tuckey, 2014). However, coping research has achieved far more modest outcomes. Discussions continue concerning the most appropriate definitions, measurements and taxonomies of coping ( e.g., Brough, O'Driscoll, & Kalliath, 2005a: O'Driscoll, Brough, ...
View more >Significant progress in both the theoretical and applied aspects of occupational stress has occurred over the past decade, illustrated by the emergence of new research models and their accompanying generation of research activities (e.g., Brough, O'Driscoll, Kalliath, Cooper, & Poelmans, 2009; Demerouti, Bakker, Nachreiner, & Schaufeli, 2001; Dollard, Shimazu, Bin Nordin, Brough, & Tuckey, 2014). However, coping research has achieved far more modest outcomes. Discussions continue concerning the most appropriate definitions, measurements and taxonomies of coping ( e.g., Brough, O'Driscoll, & Kalliath, 2005a: O'Driscoll, Brough, & Kalliath, 2009). Indeed coping has become such a 'difficult' construct to research that it is often excluded from stress investigations altogether. This exclusion is in stark contrast to the recognition of the centrality of coping to the stress process as was originally defined by Folkman, Lazarus and colleagues. The transactional stress and coping theory (Lazarus, 1966) and more recent theories such as Edwards' (1988) cybemetic coping theory both defined coping as an individual response maintaining a state of equilibrium and thus preserving well-being. Exactly how these coping responses fit within the psychological stress process and how coping should be best measured remains under discussion ( e.g., Brough, Dollard, & Tuckey, 2014).
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View more >Significant progress in both the theoretical and applied aspects of occupational stress has occurred over the past decade, illustrated by the emergence of new research models and their accompanying generation of research activities (e.g., Brough, O'Driscoll, Kalliath, Cooper, & Poelmans, 2009; Demerouti, Bakker, Nachreiner, & Schaufeli, 2001; Dollard, Shimazu, Bin Nordin, Brough, & Tuckey, 2014). However, coping research has achieved far more modest outcomes. Discussions continue concerning the most appropriate definitions, measurements and taxonomies of coping ( e.g., Brough, O'Driscoll, & Kalliath, 2005a: O'Driscoll, Brough, & Kalliath, 2009). Indeed coping has become such a 'difficult' construct to research that it is often excluded from stress investigations altogether. This exclusion is in stark contrast to the recognition of the centrality of coping to the stress process as was originally defined by Folkman, Lazarus and colleagues. The transactional stress and coping theory (Lazarus, 1966) and more recent theories such as Edwards' (1988) cybemetic coping theory both defined coping as an individual response maintaining a state of equilibrium and thus preserving well-being. Exactly how these coping responses fit within the psychological stress process and how coping should be best measured remains under discussion ( e.g., Brough, Dollard, & Tuckey, 2014).
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Book Title
Coping, Personality and the Workplace: Responding to Psychological Crisis and Critical Events
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© 2016 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Coping, Personality and the Workplace on 18 December 2015, available online: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317159612
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Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors)