“…On the one hand, personality partly determines key aspects of coping such as the rate of exposure to stressful encounters, the level of dangerousness assigned to events, the kind of strategies that are enacted, and the likelihood that such strategies will be successful (Ball, Smolin, & Shekhar, 2002;Bolger & Zuckerman, 1995;Derryberry et al, 2003;Hundt, Williams, Mendelson, & Nelson-Gray, 2013;Shoji, Harrigan, Woll, & Miller, 2010;Williams, Hundt, & Nelson-Gray, 2014). For example, extraverts use more cognitive restructuring, problem solving, and support seeking, whereas neurotic subjects resort more often to denial, distraction and drug use and less to problem-solving and acceptance (Connor-Smith & Flachsbart, 2007).…”