• Title of article

    Cognitive style and well-being: A prospective examination

  • Author/Authors

    Neil A. Rector، نويسنده , , Derek Roger، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1996
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    663
  • To page
    674
  • Abstract
    This study examines the moderating influence of self-esteem, coping styles, emotion-control and other dimensions of cognitive style on physical and psychological well-being. First-year university students (N = 121) facing a personally relevant Stressor, the arrival and adaptation to university life, were first assessed, at Time 1, with a battery of measures tapping components of cognitive style and baseline physical ailments and levels of psychological distress. At Time 2, approximately 8 weeks later, subjects once again completed a measure of somatic health and psychological well-being. After statistically partialling health status at Time 1, self-esteem, interpersonal locus of control and emotion-oriented coping predicted poor health status and distress. Furthermore, the self-esteem × emotion-oriented coping interaction effect superseded the individual effects, thus suggesting that self-esteem may moderate well-being directly as well as indirectly via coping styles and emotion-control strategies.
  • Journal title
    Personality and Individual Differences
  • Serial Year
    1996
  • Journal title
    Personality and Individual Differences
  • Record number

    455812