Is academic buoyancy anything more than adaptive coping?

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 349-358

  Putwain, David W ^a   Connors, Liz ^a   Symes, Wendy ^b   Douglas Osborn, Erica ^b  

^a EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic buoyancy; coping; test anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS; TEST ANXIETY SCALE;

EID: 84859575615     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2011.582459     Document Type: Article

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