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Relations between personality and coping: A meta-analysis.
Abstract
Personality may directly facilitate or constrain coping, but relations of personality to coping have been inconsistent across studies, suggesting a need for greater attention to methods and samples. This meta-analysis tested moderators of relations between Big Five personality traits and coping using 2,653 effect sizes drawn from 165 samples and 33,094 participants. Personality was weakly related to broad coping (e.g., Engagement or Disengagement), but all 5 traits predicted specific strategies. Extraversion and Conscientiousness predicted more problem-solving and cognitive restructuring, Neuroticism less. Neuroticism predicted problematic strategies like wishful thinking, withdrawal, and emotion-focused coping but, like Extraversion, also predicted support seeking. Personality more strongly predicted coping in young samples, stressed samples, and samples reporting dispositional rather than situation-specific coping. Daily versus retrospective coping reports and self-selected versus researcher-selected stressors also moderated relations between personality and coping. Cross-cultural differences were present, and ethnically diverse samples showed more protective effects of personality. Richer understanding of the role of personality in the coping process requires assessment of personality facets and specific coping strategies, use of laboratory and daily report studies, and multivariate analyses.
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“Individuals high in neuroticism are more likely to perceive ambiguous situations as threatening, are more reactive to social stressors (Connor-Smith & Flachsbart, 2007; Vollrath, 2001), and more sensitive to possible social rejection”
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“NNE is linked with multiple forms of maladaptive coping, including inaction, avoidance, and impulsivity (42, 44–46).”
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“The vast literature on this topic revealed that the use of coping strategies is influenced by many variables, among which are situational demands, environmental and cultural aspects, personal characters [63], as well as individuals’ ability to tolerate uncertainty [59], and personality traits [69,70,71].”
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“For example, according to Leandro and Castillo [70], and Afshar et al. [71], maladaptive personality traits (e.g., neuroticism) positively correlate with emotion-focused and avoidant (dysfunctional) coping strategies; on the contrary, extraversion positively correlates with problem-focused and emotional-focused strategies [69].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Connor-Smith, J. K., & Flachsbart, C.
- Affiliations
- Oregon State University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 2007-12
- Volume
- 93
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1080-1107
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W2005031884
- Cited by
- 1,453
- References
- 215
- Citations by year
- 2026: 80 · 2025: 64 · 2024: 87 · 2023: 103 · 2022: 91 · 2021: 114 · 2020: 129 · 2019: 70 · 2018: 89 · 2017: 81 · 2016: 86 · 2015: 92 · 2014: 71 · 2013: 68 · 2012: 94
- FWCI
- 28.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Commons - George Fox University (George Fox University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Keywords
- personality, coping, Big Five personality traits, extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, problem solving, cognitive restructuring, emotion-focused coping, support seeking, wishful thinking, withdrawal, stress, moderators, cross-cultural comparison, dispositional coping
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Humans, Personality
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