Effect of Coping Flexibility on Life Satisfaction of College Students: A Longitudinal Study

This study adopted a longitudinal design to examine the associations among coping flexibility, psychological distress, and life satisfaction. The participants comprised 222 female and 188 male college students who completed questionnaires on coping flexibility, psychological dis tress, life satisfaction, and rumination about stress (the concept of which partially overlaps with that of coping flexibility). Hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that higher coping flexibility was associated with lower psychological distress and higher life satisfaction 38 weeks la ter, even after controlling for the effects of rumination on stress, psychological distress, and life satisfaction at baseline. The findings of this study imply that coping flexibility plays an important role in affecting college students’ psychological dysfunction and life satisfaction.
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research