Department of Social Psychology, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2021 Jan;34(1):51-65. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2020.1795139. Epub 2020 Jul 16.
Coping behavior is known to moderate the effect of stressors on depressive symptoms. Increased reassessing coping, that is, waiting patiently for an appropriate opportunity to handle a stressful relationship, as coping strategy for interpersonal stressors is associated with lower depressive symptoms. We hypothesized that higher reassessing coping would be associated with lower depressive symptoms in individuals with higher coping flexibility. Coping flexibility is the ability to discontinue a coping strategy that produces undesirable outcomes by monitoring and evaluating stressful situations and the effects of coping strategies. Two studies involving approximately 1,800 college students were conducted, one using a cross-sectional design ( = 281) and another a longitudinal design ( = 1,468). In both studies, hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that the interaction between reassessing coping and coping flexibility scores was predictive of a significant depressive symptom score. This indicates that higher levels of reassessing coping are associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms when coping flexibility is higher, whereas reassessing coping is not associated with depressive symptoms when coping flexibility is lower. These results were consistent with our hypothesis in both studies.
应对行为被认为可以调节压力源对抑郁症状的影响。增加重新评估应对策略，即耐心等待适当的机会来处理人际压力源，作为应对人际压力源的策略，与较低的抑郁症状相关。我们假设，在应对灵活性较高的个体中，较高的重新评估应对策略与较低的抑郁症状相关。应对灵活性是通过监测和评估压力情况以及应对策略的效果，停止产生不良结果的应对策略的能力。进行了两项涉及约 1800 名大学生的研究，一项使用横断面设计（ = 281），另一项使用纵向设计（ = 1,468）。在这两项研究中，分层多元回归分析表明，重新评估应对和应对灵活性得分之间的交互作用可以预测抑郁症状得分显著。这表明，当应对灵活性较高时，较高水平的重新评估应对与较低水平的抑郁症状相关，而当应对灵活性较低时，重新评估应对与抑郁症状无关。这些结果在两项研究中都与我们的假设一致。
