Its psychologists create mock prison regimens to study the effects of various tactics and identify the coping styles most likely to withstand them.

The authors concluded that parental meta-emotion philosophy styles can interact with a child's temperament and predict the adolescents' coping styles.

This type of perfectionist also showed fewer psychological and somatic issues typically associated with perfectionism, namely depression, anxiety, and maladaptive coping styles.

"People with cancer should not be pressured into adopting particular coping styles to improve survival or reduce the risk of recurrence," the study concluded.

This combination of longer-term coping styles and short-term coping strategies usually serves persons well in their efforts at adaptation.

The individual differences persons bring to their encounters with cancer will result in varied coping styles and strategies.

Relationships have been shown between how one appraises an occupational stress and how one chooses a coping style.

Defensive pessimists, the researchers found, did well in the game when they prepared using imagery that mimicked their preferred coping style.

The Israeli study hypothesizes at one point that repression may work as a coping style because those who ignore have a uniquely adaptive perceptual style.

To embrace or even consider repression as a reasonable coping style is a threat to the romantic ideals so central to this culture, despite our post-modern sheen.