Blouin-Hudon Eve-Marie C, Gaudreau Patrick, Gareau Alexandre
a Department of Psychology , Carleton University , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
b School of Psychology , University of Ottawa , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2016 Sep;29(5):519-32. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2015.1100298. Epub 2015 Oct 27.
In this study, we examined the mediating role of university students' coping strategies in the unique/additive influence of affective states and goal motivation on upward changes in affect during a midterm exam period.
Using a short-term prospective design, key assumptions from the self-concordance model and the broaden-and-build theory were drawn upon to determine whether coping strategies are influenced by goal motivation and affective states, while also subsequently influencing short-term changes in affective states during a semester.
A sample of 272 students (79% females and 21% males) participated in a study in which they completed questionnaires twice during the semester.
Results of structural equation modeling, using a true latent change approach, have generally supported our hypotheses. Positive affective states and autonomous goal motivation prospectively predicted task-oriented coping which, in turn, was associated with increases in positive affect. Negative affective states and controlled goal motivation prospectively predicted disengagement-oriented coping which, in turn, was associated with increases in negative affect.
Coping partially mediates the unique association of affect and goal motivation with changes in affective states of university students.
在本研究中，我们考察了大学生应对策略在情感状态和目标动机对期中考试期间积极情绪向上变化的独特/累加影响中的中介作用。
采用短期前瞻性设计，借鉴自我一致性模型和拓展与建构理论的关键假设，以确定应对策略是否受目标动机和情感状态的影响，同时随后是否会影响学期内情感状态的短期变化。
272名学生（79%为女生，21%为男生）参与了一项研究，他们在学期内两次完成问卷。
使用真正的潜在变化方法进行的结构方程建模结果总体上支持了我们的假设。积极情感状态和自主目标动机前瞻性地预测了任务导向型应对，而任务导向型应对又与积极情绪的增加相关。消极情感状态和受控目标动机前瞻性地预测了脱离导向型应对，而脱离导向型应对又与消极情绪的增加相关。
应对在大学生情感状态变化中部分中介了情感与目标动机的独特关联。
