This study aimed to examine the role of secondary appraisal of the
event, cognitive appraisal of the situation, emotions experienced and coping
styles used after a real life stressful event that university students experienced.
Five hundred and sixty students (271 females and 289 males) from Middle East
Technical University voluntarily participated in the study. A pilot study which
consisted of two stages, interviews and survey was conducted before the main
study in order to test the appropriateness and applicability of the appraisal and
emotion measures. Cognitive Appraisal of the Situation Scale (CASS),
Emotions Checklist, Cognitive Appraisal of the Emotion Scale (CAES) and
Coping Styles Scale (CSS) were used to assess cognitive appraisals, emotions
and coping styles. Stress level, harm/loss and threat appraisals of the stressful
events, cognitive appraisal of situation, emotions experienced by the
individuals after the stressful event, cognitive appraisal of the emotions and
coping strategies used by the participants were the variables used in the
structural equation modeling (SEM). The results of the analysis revealed that,
problem focused coping was predicted by positive emotions and cognitive
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appraisal of emotion. Emotion focused coping was predicted by negative
emotions, stress level and secondary appraisal. The results also yielded that
cognitive appraisal of emotion was a moderator variable between positive
emotions and problem focused coping. Findings of the research were discussed
in the framework of Cognitive Theory of Emotions and Interactional Model of
Stress and Coping.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12604692/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 February 2004 |
| Creators | Alkan, Nese |
| Contributors | Tezer, Esin |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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