%0 Journal Article
%T Correlates of Coping Styles
%A Adrian Furnham
%J Health
%P 592-601
%@ 1949-5005
%D 2024
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/health.2024.167041
%X Five hundred participants completed a short, ten-item measure of coping along with measures of self-esteem, intelligence, belief in a just world (BJW) and conspiracy theories (CT). The scale factored into four recognisable coping styles labelled socio-emotional, cognitive, internalisation and distraction. Correlations showed all factors were related to self-esteem and trait optimism. Regressions onto each factor indicated that self-esteem was the most consistent factor being associated positively with all factors, except internalisation. Younger females with low self-esteem tended to use socio-emotional coping, optimists with high self-esteem cognitive coping, younger, less optimistic people with low self-esteem internalisation and high self-esteem, less intelligent people with BJW distraction as a coping strategy. Implications and limitations are acknowledged.
%K Coping
%K Resilience
%K Socio-emotional
%K Internalisation
%K Distraction
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=134410