Structural Model of Coping and Emotions Produced by Taking a New Job

Abstract

The relationship of preventive and combative coping resources to appraisals and emotions produced by taking a new job was investigated at 2 separate times. Participants consisted of 231 graduate students who completed inventories measuring these variables regarding their last employment experience. The results of the structural model suggested that preventive coping resources may affect the appraised desirability of taking a new job as well as Initial emotions related to this event, and that combative coping resources may affect subsequent emotional responses. The implications of these results for timing interventions by employment counselors using stress counseling techniques are discussed.

Future-Oriented Coping and Job Hunting Among College Students

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Research and Theory Religion and Spirituality in Coping With Stress

“…The coping scales are based on the Coping Resources Inventory for Stress (Matheny, Curlette, Aycock, Pugh, & Taylor, 1987). Research has shown coping appraisals to be an important area to evaluate for predicting how an individual emotionally reacts to stressful situations (McCarthy, Lambert, & Brack, 1997).…”

Health and stress in Australian interns

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