Effects of an Intervention Promoting Proactive Coping Competencies in Middle and Late Adulthood

Abstract

Conceptualizing proactive coping as a set of competencies allows the translation of this approach into interventions. Competencies that facilitate future-oriented self-regulation can be improved by a brief educational program in middle and late adulthood.

Do good self-managers have less physical and social resource deficits and more well-being in later life?

“…Also the study of Jopp and Smith (2006)-although their focus was on the protective role of SOC strategies in resource-poor old people-indicated that SOC had positive associations with resources, and an independent effect on well-being in the young-old. Bode et al (2007) investigated aspects of proactive coping in middle and late adulthood, but this study did not specifically address the question whether proactive coping is actually associated with fewer resource losses and with well-being indicators.…”

Estudo de Validação do Questionário de Coping Conjugal Prospetivo e do seu Valor Preditivo no Bem-estar Pessoal e no Ajustamento Diádico

“…Alterar estas competências parece mais eficaz do que agir diretamente sobre o coping proativo, podendo eventualmente levar ao mesmo resultado. Nos últimos anos, foram já desenvolvidas intervenções para promoção das competências proativas no envelhecimento (Bode, Ridder, Kuijer, & Bensing, 2007) e para promover a personalidade proativa no desempenho académico (Kirby, Kirby, & Lewis, 2002). Existem, segundo os autores, muitos outros contextos a ser explorados, como é o caso do sucesso nas relações conjugais, podendo beneficiar amplamente de intervenções semelhantes (Sohl & Moyer, 2009).…”

Exploring a new theory of successful aging among low-income older adults in an independent and assisted living community.

“…Aspinwall and Taylor's (1997) negatively focused definition of proactive coping through prevention of negative outcomes was not significantly related to well-being. Additionally, the Proactive Competence Scale (PCS), a 21-item instrument, developed among older adults 50 and 75 years of age, designed to measure the five steps of Aspinwall and Taylor's (1997) proactive coping process (Bode, de Ridder, Kuijer, & Bensing, 2007) was used to identify specific coping and self-regulatory strategies used in proactive coping. Aspinwall and Taylor's conceptualization of proactive coping and the Proactive Competence Scale (PCS) best explained specific self-regulation processes and quantified proactive coping competencies.…”