Personality, Stress and Coping Implications for Education

TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements. Introduction, Gretchen M. Reevy and Erica Frydenberg.

PART I: PERSONALITY, STRESS, AND COPING IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. Adolescent Coping Styles and Task-Specific Responses: Does Style Foreshadow Action? Michelle Andrews, Mary Ainley, and Erica Frydenberg. The Relationship Between Coping Strategies, Decision Coping Patterns, and Self-Efficacy in Adolescence, Leon Mann, Laura Nota, Salvatore Soresi, Lea Ferrari, and Erica Frydenberg. Implicit Theories of Personality Predict Motivation to Use Prosocial Coping Responses After Bullying in High School, David Scott Yeager and Adriana S. Miu. Coping Styles and Anxiety Among Female Victims of Bullying, Katherine Poynton and Erica Frydenberg. Understanding Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Exploring the Motivations, Personalities, and Coping Styles of Young People in a School-Based Population, Nicola Cogan and Matthias Schwannauer. The Relationship Between Positive Development During the Transition to Adulthood and Education, Temperament, and Personality, Meredith O’Connor, Ann Sanson, and Erica Frydenberg.

PART II: PERSONALITY, STRESS, AND COPING AMONG ADULTS. Optimism, Emotional Support, and Depression Among First-Year University Students: Implications for Psychological Functioning Within the Educational Setting, Melina Condren and Esther R. Greenglass. College Students’ Meaning Making Following Significant Loss, Crystal L. Park and Craig L. Esposito. Implicit Theories of Personality, Stress, and Coping of Chinese Nursing Students, Joanne Chan Chung Yan. Relationships of Big Five Traits and Coping Mechanisms With College Grade Point Average, Gretchen M. Reevy. Personality Traits, Preventive Coping, and Self-Care in Master’s Level Counsellor Training, Minda Markle and Christopher J. McCarthy. “You Are Who You Are:” A Mixed-Method Study of Affectivity and Emotion Regulation in Curbing Teacher Burnout, Russell L. Carson, Stefanie Plemmons, Thomas J. Templin, and Howard M. Weiss. Building Inner Resilience in Teachers and Students, Linda Lantieri, Eden Nagler Kyse, Susanne Harnett, and Charlotte Malkmus. Personality Hardiness as a Pathway to Resilience Under Educational Stresses, Salvatore R. Maddi. About the Authors.