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Towards A Developmental Theory Of Coping: The Structure And Function Of Coping In Emerging Adults, Virginia Diane Peisch
Towards A Developmental Theory Of Coping: The Structure And Function Of Coping In Emerging Adults, Virginia Diane Peisch
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Coping plays an important role in human adaptation and well-being. However, surprisingly little is currently known about the normative development of coping. The ‘coping families’ framework, outlined by Skinner and colleagues (2003), provides a promising approach to the study of coping in developmental samples. The current examination tested the coping families approach in emerging adults. A total of 425 individuals (63.5% female), aged 18-31 years (M age 25.04 years), were recruited online through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to complete questionnaires on demographic information, personality, childhood adversity, stress, coping behaviors in response to an interpersonal problem, mental health, emerging adult identity, …