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Adult attachment styles and stressor severity as moderators of the coping sequence
Author(s) -
HOLMBERG DIANE,
LOMORE CHRISTINE D.,
TAKACS TRISTA A.,
PRICE E. LISA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2010.01318.x
Subject(s) - stressor , psychology , coping (psychology) , distancing , normative , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , covid-19 , medicine , philosophy , disease , epistemology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This study examined the normative temporal sequence of the coping process and whether stressor severity or adult attachment styles moderated that sequence. Participants ( N = 75) described a minor or a major stressor. They were given a stack of index cards, representing coping strategies from five different domains. They selected strategies they had employed and sorted them into the order used. Overall, support from partner was one of the first coping techniques used. Adult attachment styles moderated the coping sequence. For major stressors, dismissing attachment predicted later use of support seeking from partner and earlier use of distancing coping, while preoccupied attachment predicted earlier use of emotion‐focused coping.