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Problem- Focused and Emotion-Focused Coping Potential in Adjustment to College
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)
An individual engages in coping when he or she uses cognitive and behavioral efforts to deal with the internal or external demands of a stressful situation to make it more congruent with his or her goals (Smith & Lazarus, ...
Psychological Predictors of Athletic Performance: Emotional Intelligence, Coping Style, and Mental Toughness
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
The present study examined the psychological predictors of success as they relate to performance levels. To this end, study 1 was conducted investigating the foremost psychological constructs athletes employ while in a ...
Children’s Optimism and Coping with Stress When Living with a Parent with Depression
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
In the U.S. approximately 16% of people are affected by depression in their lifetime and it is estimated that depression will become the leading cause of disability worldwide by 2020 (Monroe & Reid, 2009). In order to ...
Disordered Eating, Coping, and Perfectionism in a College Sample
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-03)
Perfectionistic tendencies and coping strategies have been implicated as important factors in both the onset and maintenance of eating disorders but have not been widely researched in conjunction with each other. Given the ...
The Effects of Realistic and Unrealistic Optimism on Performance and Coping
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-26)
Historically, optimism has been studied as a dichotomous variable. However, research has found that there are two types of optimists: cautious/realistic and unrealistic/cockeyed. A cautious/realistic optimist is defined ...
Executive Function, Coping, and Psychological Adjustment in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-03-30)
While new treatments have increased the survival rate of pediatric patients with brain
tumors, they have also left this population with many adverse cognitive, emotional, and
behavioral outcomes. Prior research provides ...
Similarity between Parent’s and Children’s Coping with Childhood Cancer
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-02)
The current study will examine the degree of similarity in ways of coping in a sample of children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents. There is a relationship between mother’s coping and children’s coping, which ...
Executive Function, Coping, and Depressive Symptoms in Children of Depressed and non-Depressed Mothers
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
The present study examined the concurrent associations among executive functioning, coping, maternal depression history, and depressive symptoms in adolescents. The sample included 82 adolescents between the ages of 12 and ...