Exploring Coping Effectiveness and Optimism among Municipal Employees
(2011) In Psychology 2(6). p.584-589- Abstract
- The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between coping, optimism, psychological and physical well-being. The effectiveness of the different coping strategies and the role of optimism were investigated by analyzing how they predicted psychological and physical well-being. Altogether 136 municipal employees participated in a questionnaire study. The results showed that the most adaptive or effective coping strategy concerning psychological and physical well-being was acceptance, which can be classified as engagement coping. Ineffective strategies regarding psychological well-being included disengagement coping strategies such as sub- stance use, behavioral disengagement and self-blame. An ineffective strategy regarding... (More)
- The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between coping, optimism, psychological and physical well-being. The effectiveness of the different coping strategies and the role of optimism were investigated by analyzing how they predicted psychological and physical well-being. Altogether 136 municipal employees participated in a questionnaire study. The results showed that the most adaptive or effective coping strategy concerning psychological and physical well-being was acceptance, which can be classified as engagement coping. Ineffective strategies regarding psychological well-being included disengagement coping strategies such as sub- stance use, behavioral disengagement and self-blame. An ineffective strategy regarding physiological well-being was denial, which can be classified as a disengagement strategy. Optimism correlated significantly with both psychological and physical well-being. However, when all the variables in the model were included in the regression analysis, optimism explained additional variance in physical well-being but not in psychological well-being. (Less)
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- Muhonen, Tuija LU and Torkelson, Eva LU
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- publishing date
- 2011
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- Coping, Optimism, Well-being
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- Psychology
- volume
- 2
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 584 - 589
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- Scientific Research
- ISSN
- 2152-7180
- DOI
- 10.4236/psych.2011.26090
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- English
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