Proactive Coping and its Relation to the Five-Factor Model of Personality
Author(s): Erin P. Hambrick, David M. McCord
Abstract: Research on personality's role in coping is inconclusive. Proactive coping ability is one's tendency to expect and prepare for life's challenges (Schwarzer & Taubert, 2002). This type of coping provides a refreshing conceptualization of coping that allows an examination of personality's role in coping that transcends the current situational versus dispositional coping conundrum. Participants (N = 49) took the Proactive Coping Inventory (Greenglass, Schwarzer, & Taubert, 1999) and their results were correlated with all domains and facets of the Five-Factor Model (FFM; Costa & McCrae, 1995). Results showed strong correlations between a total score (which encompassed 6 proactive coping scales), and Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism, as well as between several underlying domain facets. Results also showed strong correlations between specific proactive coping subscales and several domains and facets of the FFM. Implications for the influence of innate personality factors in one's ability to cope are discussed.
Pages: 67-77
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