TY - JOUR
T1 - Meaning in Life and Coping With Everyday Stressors
AU - Ward, Sarah
AU - Womick, Jake
AU - Titova, Liudmila
AU - King, Laura
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Meaning in life (MIL) has been proposed to improve coping and resilience. Yet MIL’s association with coping has primarily been investigated in the context of extreme stressors and trauma, often using varied measures of MIL. Is MIL associated with varied coping strategies, coping self-efficacy, and distress in relation to commonly experienced, everyday challenges? Using diverse methodological designs, five studies (total N = 1,646) investigated the association between MIL and coping strategies/appraisals pertaining to varied challenging, stressful events. Across recalled (Studies 1 and 2), anticipated (Study 3), and experienced stressors (Studies 3–5), MIL was consistently associated with positive reinterpretation, proactive planning, coping self-efficacy, and stress. MIL was inconsistently related to threat/emotion-coping.
AB - Meaning in life (MIL) has been proposed to improve coping and resilience. Yet MIL’s association with coping has primarily been investigated in the context of extreme stressors and trauma, often using varied measures of MIL. Is MIL associated with varied coping strategies, coping self-efficacy, and distress in relation to commonly experienced, everyday challenges? Using diverse methodological designs, five studies (total N = 1,646) investigated the association between MIL and coping strategies/appraisals pertaining to varied challenging, stressful events. Across recalled (Studies 1 and 2), anticipated (Study 3), and experienced stressors (Studies 3–5), MIL was consistently associated with positive reinterpretation, proactive planning, coping self-efficacy, and stress. MIL was inconsistently related to threat/emotion-coping.
KW - coping
KW - meaning in life
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U2 - 10.1177/01461672211068910
DO - 10.1177/01461672211068910
M3 - Article
C2 - 35109717
AN - SCOPUS:85124571422
SN - 0146-1672
VL - 49
SP - 460
EP - 476
JO - Personality and social psychology bulletin
JF - Personality and social psychology bulletin
IS - 3
ER -