Date of Completion

11-13-2012

Embargo Period

11-12-2012

Advisors

Stephanie Milan; Howard Tennen

Field of Study

Psychology

Degree

Master of Arts

Open Access

Open Access

Abstract

Appraisals of stressful events are linked to their adjustment to those stressful events. Appraisals can include perceptions of an event as threatening, uncontrollable, controllable, central, or challenging (Peacock & Wong, 1990). Many studies have examined effects of these appraisals on adjustment and cognitive processing (Aldwin, 2007; Lazarus, 1993; Tan, Jensen, Thornby, & Anderson, 2005), and a few have suggested that cognitive processing mediates relationships between appraisals and adjustment (Peacock & Wong, 1996). We tested cognitive processing in mediation models between appraisals and adjustment, and compared to active coping, in the context of ongoing stressors. Active coping appears to be particularly useful for ongoing academic stressors.

Major Advisor

Crystal L. Park

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