Coping flexibility and psychological adjustment to stressful life changes: a meta-analytic review.

C Cheng, HPB Lau, MPS Chan - Psychological bulletin, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Compared with the large body of literature on coping, coping flexibility has received
relatively scant research attention, although more such studies have begun to emerge …

Assessing coping flexibility in real-life and laboratory settings: a multimethod approach.

C Cheng - Journal of personality and social psychology, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
This research sought to formulate a theoretically based conceptualization of coping flexibility
and to adopt a multimethod approach in assessing this construct. A self-report daily measure …

Measuring coping flexibility

N Lester, L Smart, A Baum - Psychology and Health, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
The present study examined coping flexibility and correlates of this style of approaching
stressful situations. Two methods for assessing coping flexibility, the Flex (Schwartz and …

The self-perception of flexible coping with stress: A new measure and relations with emotional adjustment

MJ Zimmer-Gembeck, EA Skinner, KL Modecki… - Cogent …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To develop a theoretically grounded measure of self-perceived ability to cope with
stress in a flexible (ie non-rigid) manner and test associations with well-being. Method …

Development of the Coping Flexibility Scale: evidence for the coping flexibility hypothesis.

T Kato - Journal of counseling psychology, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Coping flexibility was defined as the ability to discontinue an ineffective coping strategy (ie,
evaluation coping) and produce and implement an alternative coping strategy (ie, adaptive …

Coping with occupational stress: The role of optimism and coping flexibility

DJ Reed - Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The current study aimed at measuring whether coping flexibility is a reliable and valid
construct in a UK sample and subsequently investigating the association between coping …

Cognitive processes underlying coping flexibility: Differentiation and integration

C Cheng, MWL Cheung - Journal of personality, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates how individuals formulate flexible coping strategies across situations
by proposing differentiation and integration as two stress‐appraisal processes. Results …

A count of coping strategies: A longitudinal study investigating an alternative method to understanding coping and adjustment

T Heffer, T Willoughby - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Researchers recently have suggested that coping flexibility (ie, an individual's ability to
modify and change coping strategies depending on the context) may be an important way to …

Coping strategies and subjective well-being: Context matters

R Fischer, J Scheunemann, S Moritz - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2021 - Springer
A growing body of research suggests that the functionality of coping strategies may in part
depend on the context in which they are executed. Thus far, functionality has mostly been …

The effectiveness of a new, coping flexibility intervention as compared with a cognitive-behavioural intervention in managing work stress

C Cheng, A Kogan, JH Chio - Work & Stress, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In typical stress management programmes, working adults acquire various coping skills for
managing work stress. In addition to building coping skills, we propose the inclusion of a …