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Structural Model of Coping, Appraisals, and Emotions After Relationship Breakup
Author(s) -
McCarthy Christopher J.,
Lambert Richard G.,
Brack Greg
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1997.tb02376.x
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , psychology , cognition , psychological intervention , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience
The relationship of coping resources and cognitive appraisals to emotions produced by the end of a romantic relationship at 2 separate times was investigated. Participants were 231 graduate students who completed inventories measuring their coping resources, cognitive appraisals, and emotional reactions. The results of the structural model suggested that preventive coping resources affected the appraised desirability of the event as well as initial emotional reactions and that combative coping resources affected subsequent emotional response. The implications of these findings for stress models of emotions and clinical interventions are discussed.