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Exploring Coping Effectiveness and Optimism among Municipal Employees

In English

Författare

  • Tuija Muhonen
  • Eva Torkelson

Summary, in English

The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between coping, optimism, psychological and physical well-being. The effectiveness of the different coping strategies and the role of optimism were investigated by analyzing how they predicted psychological and physical well-being. Altogether 136 municipal employees participated in a questionnaire study. The results showed that the most adaptive or effective coping strategy concerning psychological and physical well-being was acceptance, which can be classified as engagement coping. Ineffective strategies regarding psychological well-being included disengagement coping strategies such as sub- stance use, behavioral disengagement and self-blame. An ineffective strategy regarding physiological well-being was denial, which can be classified as a disengagement strategy. Optimism correlated significantly with both psychological and physical well-being. However, when all the variables in the model were included in the regression analysis, optimism explained additional variance in physical well-being but not in psychological well-being.

Publiceringsår

2011

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

584-589

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Psychology

Volym

2

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP)

Ämne

  • Psychology

Nyckelord

  • Coping
  • Optimism
  • Well-being

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2152-7180