Wayfinding through life's challenges : coping and survival /

Wayfinding through life's challenges : coping and survival /

This book focuses more on the 'know how', intra and inter psychically, about particular events that occur in life and how and why individuals react to them in different ways. Whether it is about internal resources, knowing how to tap into external resources, or how we determine that we are...

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Other Authors: Gow, Kathryn (Editor), Celinski, Marek J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Hauppauge], New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., ©2011.
Series:Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.
Subjects:
Adjustment (Psychology)
Resilience (Personality trait)
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • WAYFINDING THROUGH LIFE'S CHALLENGES: COPING AND SURVIVAL
  • WAYFINDING THROUGH LIFE'S CHALLENGES: COPING AND SURVIVAL
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • OVERVIEW
  • OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS
  • Underpinnings in Theory and Measurement
  • General Applications
  • Hell and Something Like It
  • The World of Work
  • Education and Training
  • Postscript
  • REFERENCES
  • PART 1:A CLOSER LOOK AT SOME OF THE CONCEPTS AND MEASURES RELATED TO COPING AND RESILIENCE
  • TRENDS IN RESILIENCE THEORY AND RESEARCH
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • SOME PROTOTYPICAL FORMULATIONS OF RESILIENCELocus of Control
  • Self-Efficacy
  • PRIMARY CONCEPTS OF RESILI
  • Sense of Coherence
  • Hardiness
  • Ego-Resiliency
  • Flow
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • LIFE IS MORE THAN SURVIVAL: EXPLORING LINKS BETWEEN ANTONOVSKYS SALUTOGENIC THEORY AND THE CONCEPT OF RESILIENCE
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE ROLE OF SALUTOGENIC THEORY IN HEALTH AND WELLBEING
  • The Frameworks
  • An Asset Approach Focusing on Resources
  • Life Orientation and Processes
  • The Question is More Important than the AnswerA Lifelong Development of the SOC
  • The Theoretical Foundation
  • Definitions of the Concepts
  • The Operationalisation
  • The Implementation
  • The Evidence Base of Salutogenesis
  • The Salutogenic Umbrella
  • From Learned Resourcefulness to Healthy Learning
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: CONTRIBUTORS TO RESILIENCE AND RESOURCEFULNESS
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Concepts of Resilience and Resourcefulness
  • SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
  • Constructs of Social and Emotional IntelligenceLinking Constructs to Clinical Conditions
  • MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
  • Recent Studies on Social Intelligence with Clinical Populations
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX: SAMPLE OF ITEMS FROM THE SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE TEST-REVISED (SIT-R)
  • Test 1. Judgment In Social Situations
  • Test 2. Observation of Human Behaviour
  • Test 3. Recognition of the Mental State of the Speaker
  • Test 4. Sense of Humour
  • REFERENCES
  • PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO RESILIENCE: SEEKING FOR A COMMON CORE
  • ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION
  • CHARACTERIZATION OF SELECTED RESILIENCE CONSTRUCTS
  • Focus of the Research
  • METHOD
  • Sample
  • Measures
  • RESULTS
  • Analyses
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix Approach
  • Resilience Measures
  • Burnout Measures
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Factors as Dimensions
  • DISCUSSION
  • Suggestions for Further Resea
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • MEASURING COPING VERSUS SYMPTOM INTENSITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE
  • ABSTRACT

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