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Coping styles in animals: current status in behavior and stress-physiology
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This paper summarizes the current views on coping styles as a useful concept in understanding individual adaptive capacity and vulnerability to stress-related disease. Studies in feral populations indicate the existence of a proactive and a reactive coping style. These coping styles seem to play a role in the population ecology of the species. Despite domestication, genetic selection and inbreeding, the same coping styles can, to some extent, also be observed in laboratory and farm animals. Coping styles are characterized by consistent behavioral and neuroendocrine characteristics, some of which seem to be causally linked to each other. Evidence is accumulating that the two coping styles might explain a differential vulnerability to stress mediated disease due to the differential adaptive value of the two coping styles and the accompanying neuroendocrine differentiation.
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- Authors
- Koolhaas, J. M., Korte, S. M., De Boer, S. F., Van Der Vegt, B. J., Van Reenen, C. G., Hopster, H., De Jong, I. C., Ruis, M. A. W., & Blokhuis, H. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Groningen (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Koolhaas, J.M
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1999-11
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 925-935
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2116707460
- Semantic Scholar
- 129169f853b1e71e05d97fe6ff733d7cd57b22d8
- Cited by
- 2,875
- References
- 97
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- FWCI
- 6.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Locations
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Keywords
- coping styles, proactive coping, reactive coping, stress physiology, neuroendocrine system, stress-related disorders, feral populations, domestication, livestock, population ecology, behavioral consistency
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Stress, Psychological
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