Ways of Coping Checklist

RÉSUMÉ L'étude de la gestion du stress passe par l'analyse des stratégies de "coping"-d'ajustement-mises en oeuvre par l'individu face à une situation stressante. Bien souvent, dans les recherches actuelles, des questionnaires de type self-report, comme le "Ways of Coping Check-List" de Vitaliano et al. (1985) sont utilisés. Nous voulons mettre en évidence les profondes implications et répercussions de ce type d'instrumentation sur les résultats des recherches, et par la même occasion, sur le fossé observé entre théorie et vécu. Cette étude compare les réponses au questionnaire de coping dans sa version française (Paulhan et al., 1994) rapportées par 103 sujets du monde des assurances sous trois consignes différentes : une consigne ayant trait à leurs propres stratégies de coping face à un problème, une consigne quant aux stratégies de coping réellement utilisées par les gens et une consigne quant aux stratégies de coping que les gens vont déclarer utiliser. ABSTRACT Most of stress researches appraise the different types of coping strategies which can be used when confronting an adversive event by self-report checklist, such as "the Ways of Coping Checklist" (Vitaliano et al., 1985). We want to explore the repercussions of this kind of instrumentation on the results of actual investigations, and so, on the gap between theory and current experience. This study compares the answers of 103 insurance company 's executives confronted to three different instructions on stress coping strategies : one instruction has to do with their own coping strategies, one instruction with people 's actual used coping strategies and one instruction with the coping strategies that people are going to declare.

Abstract: There is a relationship between people's emotional maturity and coping methods they prefer. Less emotionally mature people tend to prefer rather primitive and often inefficient coping methods, while more mature people lean towards more sophisticated and more useful methods. Aim of the study to examine the relationship between emotional maturity and ways of coping of students who are pursuing rehabilitation studies. Participants consisted of a purposively selected 60 students respect to their course and gender.30 male students and 30 female students. Participants completed self-reported measures of emotional maturity scale and ways of coping questionnaire. The results indicating relation between emotional maturity has correlation with confrontive coping and positive reappraisal coping. Positive reappraisal coping were found negatively correlated with emotional maturity and this correlation is highly significant. There is no significant difference in level of emotional ...