Shiloh Shoshana, Orgler-Shoob Michal
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
J Pers. 2006 Apr;74(2):457-78. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00381.x.
Monitoring (Miller, 1991) is defined as a cognitive coping style characterized by the tendency to seek information about threats. This study found that information seeking in stressful situations is perceived by individuals as related to the emotion-focused more than the problem-focused function of coping and that there is considerable variance among individuals in the perceived functions of information seeking and the relationships among information-seeking reactions and their perceived functions. Information-seeking preferences in a natural stressful situation (a final course examination) were predicted by individual differences in perceived functions of information seeking rather than by generalized behavioral coping styles (monitoring). The results were interpreted in relation to the cognitive-affective system theory (Mischel & Shoda, 1995), and implications for the measurement of coping dispositions were discussed.
监测（米勒，1991年）被定义为一种认知应对方式，其特点是倾向于寻求有关威胁的信息。本研究发现，个体认为在压力情境中寻求信息与以情绪为中心的应对功能而非以问题为中心的应对功能更为相关，并且在信息寻求的感知功能以及信息寻求反应与其感知功能之间的关系方面，个体之间存在相当大的差异。在自然压力情境（期末考试）中的信息寻求偏好是由信息寻求感知功能的个体差异预测的，而不是由广义的行为应对方式（监测）预测的。研究结果依据认知-情感系统理论（米歇尔和肖达，1995年）进行了解释，并讨论了对应对倾向测量的启示。
