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Personality, Stress, and Coping: Implications for Education (Research on Stress and Coping in Education) - Softcover

 
9781617355233: Personality, Stress, and Coping: Implications for Education (Research on Stress and Coping in Education)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1617355232 ISBN 13: 9781617355233
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Nearly all chapters in this volume are contemporary original research on personality, stress, and coping in educational contexts. The research spans primary, secondary, and tertiary education. Research participants are students and teachers. The volume brings together contributions from the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Scotland, and Hong Kong. Outcomes of interest in the studies include achievement (e.g., grades), cognitive processes such as problem solving, and psychological/ emotional health and well-being.

The book is divided into two sections. Part I focuses on personality, stress, and coping in children and young people and Part II addresses personality, stress and coping among adults. Each chapter is introduced by an abstract that summarizes the study. Each chapter makes a unique contribution and can stand alone; interested individuals may benefit from reading any of the chapters without the necessity of reading others. At the same time, there is frequent content overlap among chapters; many authors utilized some of the same measurement devices to assess study variables, and similar or identical variables are studied across chapters utilizing diverse theoretical perspectives or models. In measuring coping, several chapters used the Adolescent Coping Scale (Frydenberg & Lewis, 1993) and a number of others utilized the COPE scale (Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub, 1989). Particular personality models or variables were commonly studied. A few chapters investigated the Big Five, two studied self efficacy and two researched implicit theories of personality.

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About the Author

GRETCHEN MARIA REEVY is a Lecturer in Psychology at California State University, East Bay. She has taught Stress and Coping for 11 years.

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Publisher
Information Age Publishing
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1617355232
ISBN 13 
9781617355233
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
338
Editor
Reevy Gretchen M., Frydenberg Erica