No open-access location is known for this record yet.
No open-access location is known for this record yet.
This study adapts Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) model of stress and coping to describe individual decision processes. This research also investigates the role of situational and person factors in coping and choice processes. In the first phase of the experiment, participants described two stressful decisions they were facing (i.e., a romantic decision and a school-related decision) and completed personality and cognitive style inventories as well as measures of threat, challenge, and self-efficacy appraisals. Three weeks later, the same participants reported how they had dealt with their decisions. They also completed the appraisal measures and described the choice options they would prefer (or had chosen). Results of structural equation modeling reveal that appraisals of self-efficacy influence coping patterns. Furthermore, individual difference measures of positive affect and fear of invalidity were indirectly related to coping via self-efficacy appraisals, and coping patterns and self-efficacy appraisals predicted aspects of the choice. Differences in decision domains qualified some of the relationships among constructs. Overall, the findings show that theories of stress and coping add insight to choices and their surrounding experiences. Cette etude empirique adapte le modele de stress et coping de Lazarus et Folkman (1984) a la description de processus de decision. Elle evalue aussi le role de facteurs situationnels et individuels dans des processus de coping et de decision. Lors de la premiere phase de l'experimentation, les participants decrivirent deux decisions stressantes auxquelles ils etaient confrontes (i.e., des decisions d'ordre romantique et scolaire) et completerent des echelles mesurant divers traits de personnalite et styles cognitifs, de meme que des mesures d'evaluations cognitives de menace, de defi et d'auto-efficacite. Trois semaines plus tard, ces memes participants evaluerent leur utilisation de diverses strategies d'adaptation, ou methodes de coping, pour faire face a leurs decisions decrites precedemment. Ils remplirent a nouveau les mesures d'evaluations cognitives et decrivirent les options ou alternatives considerees afin de resoudre leurs decisions. Les resultats de systemes d'equations structurelles suggerent que les evaluations cognitives d'auto-efficacite des individus influencent leur utilisation de diverses strategies d'adaptation. De plus, les mesures d'affectivite positive et de peur de l'invalidite sont indirectement reliees, via ces evaluations cognitives, a l'utilisation des diverses strategies d'adaptation. Les methodes de coping et les evaluations cognitives d'auto-efficacite ont aussi un impact sur les caracteristiques de l'option ou alternative preferee. Enfin, le domaine de decision (i.e., romantique vs. scolaire) modifie certaines relations entre les construits. Les resultats de cette etude longitudinale demontrent que les theories du stress et coping ajoutent a la comprehension des processus de decision et de choix des individus.
Loading…
Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.