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Article: Coping flexibility and psychological adjustment to stressful life changes: A meta-analytic review
Title | Coping flexibility and psychological adjustment to stressful life changes: A meta-analytic review |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | American Psychological Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.apa.org/journals/bul.html |
Citation | Psychological Bulletin, 2014, v. 140 n. 6, p. 1582-1607 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Compared with the large body of literature on coping, coping flexibility has received relatively scant research attention, although more such studies have begun to emerge recently. Researchers have conceptualized coping flexibility in diverse ways: as a broad coping repertoire, a well-balanced coping profile, cross-situational variability in strategy deployment, a good strategy-situation fit, or the perceived ability to cope with environmental changes. This meta-analysis is the first to provide a summary estimate of the overall effect size and investigate cross-study sources of variation in the beneficial role of coping flexibility. The analysis covers all available studies conducted between 1978 and 2013 that empirically tested the relationship between coping flexibility and psychological adjustment. The results of a random-effects model revealed a small to moderate overall mean effect size (r = .23, 95% CI [.19, .28], 80% CRI [-.02, .49], k = 329, N = 58,946). More important, the magnitude of the positive link between coping flexibility and psychological adjustment varied with the conceptualization of such flexibility. Studies adopting the perceived ability or strategy-situation fit conceptualization yielded moderate effect sizes, whereas those adopting the broad repertoire, balanced profile, or cross-situational variability conceptualization yielded small effect sizes. In addition, the positive link between coping flexibility and psychological adjustment was stronger in samples from countries lower (vs. higher) in individualism and samples with higher (vs. lower) average ages. Individualism and age explained 10% and 13% of the variance, respectively. We discuss the conceptual problems and implications and propose a synthesized conceptualization of coping flexibility.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved). |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/204912 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 17.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 8.412 |
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dc.contributor.author | Cheng, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lau, HP | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, MPS | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-20T01:04:40Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-20T01:04:40Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Psychological Bulletin, 2014, v. 140 n. 6, p. 1582-1607 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0033-2909 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/204912 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Compared with the large body of literature on coping, coping flexibility has received relatively scant research attention, although more such studies have begun to emerge recently. Researchers have conceptualized coping flexibility in diverse ways: as a broad coping repertoire, a well-balanced coping profile, cross-situational variability in strategy deployment, a good strategy-situation fit, or the perceived ability to cope with environmental changes. This meta-analysis is the first to provide a summary estimate of the overall effect size and investigate cross-study sources of variation in the beneficial role of coping flexibility. The analysis covers all available studies conducted between 1978 and 2013 that empirically tested the relationship between coping flexibility and psychological adjustment. The results of a random-effects model revealed a small to moderate overall mean effect size (r = .23, 95% CI [.19, .28], 80% CRI [-.02, .49], k = 329, N = 58,946). More important, the magnitude of the positive link between coping flexibility and psychological adjustment varied with the conceptualization of such flexibility. Studies adopting the perceived ability or strategy-situation fit conceptualization yielded moderate effect sizes, whereas those adopting the broad repertoire, balanced profile, or cross-situational variability conceptualization yielded small effect sizes. In addition, the positive link between coping flexibility and psychological adjustment was stronger in samples from countries lower (vs. higher) in individualism and samples with higher (vs. lower) average ages. Individualism and age explained 10% and 13% of the variance, respectively. We discuss the conceptual problems and implications and propose a synthesized conceptualization of coping flexibility. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved). | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | American Psychological Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.apa.org/journals/bul.html | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Psychological Bulletin | - |
dc.rights | Psychological Bulletin. Copyright © American Psychological Association. | - |
dc.rights | This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. | - |
dc.title | Coping flexibility and psychological adjustment to stressful life changes: A meta-analytic review | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Cheng, C: ceccheng@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Cheng, C=rp00588 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1037/a0037913 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 25222637 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84920267638 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 237172 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 140 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 6 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1582 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 1607 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000344354000007 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0033-2909 | - |