Psychology, Department of
Date of this Version
December 1996
Abstract
Several personality dimensions (mastery, extraversion, and neuroticism) and a new General Appraisal Measure were used to predict stress appraisals made by college students in specific situations. Using multiple-regression techniques, mastery and general appraisal tendencies predicted appraisals for an intellectual task. Path analysis supported a structural model with general appraisal tendencies as a mediator between mastery and specific appraisal. In the second study mastery, extraversion, neuroticism, and general appraisal tendencies predicted appraisals for an academic stressor. Path analysis again supported the mediational nature of general appraisal tendencies from personality variables to specific appraisal. We discuss a potential causal mechanism between personality dimensions and appraisal patterns.
Comments
Published in Motivation and Emotion, Vol. 20, No. 4 (1996), pp. 299–317. Copyright © 1996 Plenum Publishing Corporation/Springer Verlag. Used by permission. http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-6644/