Wayfinding through life's challenges [[electronic resource] ] : coping and survival / / Kathryn M. Gow and Marek J. Celinski, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461283603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hauppauge, NY, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011
• ISBN: 1-61942-698-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (571 p.)
• Collana: Psychology of emotions, motivations and actions
• Altri autori (Persone): GowKathryn; CelinskiMarek J
• Disciplina: 155.2/4
• Soggetti: Adjustment (Psychology); Resilience (Personality trait); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""WAYFINDING THROUGH LIFE'S CHALLENGES: COPING AND SURVIVAL""; ""WAYFINDING THROUGH LIFE'S CHALLENGES: COPING AND SURVIVAL""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS""; ""Underpinnings in Theory and Measurement""; ""General Applications""; ""Hell and Something Like It""; ""The World of Work""; ""Education and Training""; ""Postscript""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PART 1:A CLOSER LOOK AT SOME OF THE CONCEPTS AND MEASURES RELATED TO COPING AND RESILIENCE""; ""TRENDS IN RESILIENCE THEORY AND RESEARCH""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SOME PROTOTYPICAL FORMULATIONS OF RESILIENCE""""Locus of Control""; ""Self-Efficacy""; ""PRIMARY CONCEPTS OF RESILI""; ""Sense of Coherence""; ""Hardiness""; ""Ego-Resiliency""; ""Flow""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""LIFE IS MORE THAN SURVIVAL: EXPLORING LINKS BETWEEN ANTONOVSKYS SALUTOGENIC THEORY AND THE CONCEPT OF RESILIENCE""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE ROLE OF SALUTOGENIC THEORY IN HEALTH AND WELLBEING""; ""The Frameworks""; ""An Asset Approach Focusing on Resources""; ""Life Orientation and Processes""; ""The Question is More Important than the Answer""""A Lifelong Development of the SOC""; ""The Theoretical Foundation""; ""Definitions of the Concepts""; ""The Operationalisation""; ""The Implementation""; ; ""The Evidence Base of Salutogenesis""; ""The Salutogenic Umbrella""; ""From Learned Resourcefulness to Healthy Learning""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: CONTRIBUTORS TO RESILIENCE AND RESOURCEFULNESS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Concepts of Resilience and Resourcefulness""; ""SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE""; ""Constructs of Social and Emotional Intelligence""""Linking Constructs to Clinical Conditions""; ""MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE""; ""Recent Studies on Social Intelligence with Clinical Populations""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX: SAMPLE OF ITEMS FROM THE SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE TEST-REVISED (SIT-R)""; ""Test 1. Judgment In Social Situations""; ""Test 2. Observation of Human Behaviour""; ""Test 3. Recognition of the Mental State of the Speaker""; ""Test 4. Sense of Humour""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO RESILIENCE: SEEKING FOR A COMMON CORE""; ""ABSTRACT""""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHARACTERIZATION OF SELECTED RESILIENCE CONSTRUCTS""; ""Focus of the Research""; ""METHOD""; ""Sample""; ""Measures""; ""RESULTS""; ""Analyses""; ""Descriptive Statistics""; ""Correlation Analysis""; ""Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix Approach""; ""Resilience Measures""; ""Burnout Measures""; ""Principal Component Analysis""; ""Factors as Dimensions""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""Suggestions for Further Resea""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""MEASURING COPING VERSUS SYMPTOM INTENSITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""