A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL CERTAINTY AND UNCERTAINTY ON COPING STRATEGIES.

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    • Subject Terms:
      LIFE skills; CERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY; JUDGMENT (Psychology); REASONING; COMPARATIVE studies
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      It was proposed that any emotion associated with a feeling of certainty would promote problem-focused coping, whereas any emotion associated with a feeling of uncertainty would lead to more emotion-focused coping. An experiment with 180 undergraduate students and based on appraisal questionnaires (Smith & Ellsworth, 1985) provided confirmation for the proposal by showing that participants in emotional states of uncertainty were more favorably disposed towards problem-focused coping than they were in states of emotional certainty; whereas participants in states of emotional certainty engaged in more emotion-focused coping than in states of uncertainty emotional in a judgment context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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