from Part IV - Psychological Foundations of the Development of Coping
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2023
This chapter addresses the ways that temperament and personality traits and coping develop and mutually affect each other throughout childhood and adolescence. The associations between personality traits and coping are typically modest in size, although the links may be stronger in childhood than later in life. Research on normative patterns suggests that, across both domains, children experience growth in self-regulation in middle childhood, followed by a dip in self-regulation in early adolescence, and then gradual improvements in later adolescence. Temperament and personality traits, stress, and coping may be related through five processes: traits affect exposure to stressors; traits affect youth’s appraisal of stressors; traits shape which coping strategies youth use; traits and coping interact to shape adaptation; and chronic use of coping strategies may affect trait development. Finally, narrative identity may also play an important part in helping young people cope with stress and adversity starting in adolescence.
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