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Between Avoidance and Problem Solving: Resilience, Self‐Efficacy, and Social Support Seeking
Author(s) -
Li Minghui,
Eschenauer Robert,
Persaud Vanessa
Publication year - 2018
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/jcad.12187
Subject(s) - psychology , self efficacy , social support , structural equation modeling , psychological resilience , social psychology , resilience (materials science) , developmental psychology , computer science , physics , machine learning , thermodynamics
The authors explored resilience, self‐efficacy, and social support seeking as (a) mediators between stress and problem solving and (b) moderators buffering the effect of stress on avoidance. Participants were 220 college students. Structural equation modeling showed that resilience and self‐efficacy positively influenced problem solving but could not buffer stress's effect on avoidance. Social support seeking played a more important role than resilience and self‐efficacy in reducing avoidance when individuals intentionally used social support seeking as a source for problem solving instead of avoidance.