

Author: Cheng Cecilia Kogan Aleksandr Chio Jasmine Hin-man
Publisher: Routledge Ltd
ISSN: 1464-5335
Source: Work & Stress, Vol.26, Iss.3, 2012-07, pp. : 272-288
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Abstract
In typical stress management programmes, working adults acquire various coping skills for managing work stress. In addition to building coping skills, we propose the inclusion of a “meta skill” of coping flexibility, which helps individuals to recognize the distinctions among the coping requirements of diverse stressful events and to facilitate employment of appropriate skills for handling the specific demands of those events. Our study tested this proposal by comparing the efficacy of a new coping flexibility intervention with that of a commonly adopted cognitive-behavioural intervention in reducing depression. We randomly assigned 161 healthy Chinese working adults (55 men, 106 women,
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