Agentic Personality Characteristics and Coping: Their Relation to Trait Anxiety in College Students

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 255-264

  Weigold, Ingrid K ^a   Robitschek, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agentic personality characteristics; College students; Coping; Coping self efficacy; Hardiness; Personal growth initiative; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 79954452112     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2011.01094.x     Document Type: Article

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