Research Article: The Relationship Between Negative Coping Styles, Psychological Resilience, and Positive Coping Styles in Military Personnel: A Cross-Lagged Analysis
Abstract:
Coping style refers to the cognitive and behavioral ways that individuals use to reduce their psychological distress when faced with stressful events and situations. Researchers used factor analysis method to extract the common characteristics of all types of coping styles and divided them into positive and negative coping styles. Positive coping styles reflect that individuals engage in some cognitive or behavioral strategies that can lead to positive outcomes when they encounter stress, such as changing cognition by deploying cognitive resources, actively solving problems or seeking social support from family and friends. Negative coping styles reflect the tendency of individuals to adopt cognitive or behavioral strategies that can lead to negative outcomes when they encounter stress, such as cognitive avoidance, expression suppression and substance abuse. The dual-factor model of mental health posits that life satisfaction and mental illness symptoms constitute crucial positive and negative indicators, respectively, for diagnosing mental health condition. Notably, the two coping styles have opposing influences on mental health condition across both positive and negative indicators.– For example, when an individual faces a stressful event of social rejection, positive coping style can reduce the impact of the stressful event and allow the individual to maintain a normal level of life satisfaction, while negative coping style will reduce life satisfaction. When college students face negative life events (eg school bullying, poor grades), positive coping style can alleviate symptoms of depression, whereas negative coping style can worsen symptoms of depression.
Introduction:
Coping style refers to the cognitive and behavioral ways that individuals use to reduce their psychological distress when faced with stressful events and situations. Researchers used factor analysis method to extract the common characteristics of all types of coping styles and divided them into positive and negative coping styles. Positive coping styles reflect that individuals engage in some cognitive or behavioral strategies that can lead to positive outcomes when they encounter stress, such as changing…
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