Coping styles mediate the relationship between trait resilience and perceived severity of stressful life events

• Main Authors: Cruz, Gabrielle Marie S., Escuadra, Ken Jefte B., Ocampo, Rafael Q., Tan, Kevin Tyson D.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait) > Philippines; Personality > Philippines; Individuality > Philippines; Stress management > Philippines; Conduct of life
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/9938
• Institution: De La Salle University

Coping mediates resilience and perceived stressful events. Trait resilience is one of the many innate abilities that an individual possesses. It reflects an individual's ability to adapt to stressful events. Stressful life events are inevitable, may it be natural disasters, man-made accidents, environmental factors or even self. Naturally, some people would have the capacity to overcome these hardships. In line with this, various coping styles are at play to assist the individuals. A total of 160 participants, with the age pool of 18 to 47, were gathered while using pen-and-paper technique. Brief resilience Scale was used to assess an individual's trait resilience, respectively The Appraisal of Life Events Scale was assessed to an individual's perception on how severe the stressful life events was, subjectively and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations-21 to assess which of the coping styles did they use to cope up with the stressful life events. Analysis revealed that there is a significant relationship with between trait resilience and perceived loss after encountering a stressful life events. The higher the trait resilience is, the lower the perception of severity of stressful life event is. Furthermore, the result shows that emotion-oriented coping plays a significant mediating role between those variables. When an individual has a low trait resilience, he or she would most likely view he stressful life event as an impassable obstacle. Hence, the only way to win this over is by using emotion-oriented coping style.