Cognitive style and well-being: A prospective examination

Author(s): Roger, D.

Journal/Book: Pers Indiv Differ. 1996; 21: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, England OX5 1GB. Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd. 663-674.

Abstract: This study examines the moderating influence of self-esteem, coping styles, emotion-control and other dimensions of cognitive style on physical and psychological well-being. First-year university students (N = 121) facing a personally relevant stressor, the arrival and adaptation to university life, were first assessed, at Time 1, with a battery of measures tapping components of cognitive style and baseline physical ailments and levels of psychological distress. At Time 2, approximately 8 weeks later, subjects once again completed a measure of somatic health and psychological well-being. After statistically partialling health status at Time 1, self-esteem, interpersonal locus of control and emotion-oriented coping predicted poor health status and distress. Furthermore, the self-esteem x emotion-oriented coping interaction effect superseded the individual effects, thus suggesting that self-esteem may moderate well-being directly as well as indirectly via coping styles and emotion-control strategies. .

Note: Article NA Rector, Univ Toronto, Clarke Inst Psychiat, Sect Personal & Psychopathol, Mood & Anxiety Div, 250 Coll St, Toronto, on M5T 1R8, Canada

Keyword(s): NEGATIVE SELF-EVALUATION; EMOTIONAL CONTROL; COPING ABILITY; STRESS; HEALTH; SCALE; CONSTRUCTION; VALIDATION; CONSEQUENCES; NEUROTICISM

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