Although research has demonstrated that social interactions influence psychological well-being, little is known about what specific actions victims of stressful life events experience as helpful or un

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 6 representative gaps

• Dynamics of a stressful encounter: Cognitive appraisal, coping, and encounter outcomes. (1986) · doi

  Despite the importance that is attributed to coping as a factor in psychological and somatic health outcomes, little is known about actual coping processes, the variables that influence them, and their relation to the outcomes of the stressful encounters people experience in their day-to-day lives.

  Keywords: coping outcomes despite importance attributed factor psychological somatic health little known actual processes variables influence
• Victims' perceptions of social support: What is helpful from whom? (1990) · doi

  Although research has demonstrated that social interactions influence psychological well-being, little is known about what specific actions victims of stressful life events experience as helpful or unhelpful.

  Keywords: social interactions influence psychological well little known specific actions victims stressful life events experience helpful
• The impact of accommodative coping on well-being in childhood and adolescence (2014) · doi

  Until now, however, there have been little to no studies on the prognostic impact of accommodative coping on health, and only a few studies investigating its buffering effect on the relation between stress and health in childhood and adolescence.

  Keywords: health until there little prognostic impact accommodative coping investigating buffering effect relation stress childhood adolescence
• Coping as a Communal Process (1998) · doi

  We also provide an analysis of benefits and costs of communal coping, a discussion of key factors in its utilization, and suggestions for further research on the functioning of communal coping in contemporary society.

  Keywords: communal coping provide benefits costs discussion factors utilization suggestions further functioning contemporary society
• Coping Profiles and Psychological Distress: A Cluster Analysis (2012)

  The underlying theoretical and empirical research suggests that people seem to use multiple coping strategies yet, to date no consensus among researchers has been achieved as to the number of relevant coping functions or the utility of each in predicting stress outcomes (Skinner et al.

  Keywords: coping underlying theoretical empirical suggests people seem multiple strategies date consensus among researchers achieved number
• Stress, savouring, and coping: The role of savouring in psychological adjustment following a stressful life event (2019) · doi

  Findings provide preliminary support for conceptualizing savouring as a coping response; future research should consider measuring savouring as a coping response to further our understanding of savouring following a stressful life event.

  Keywords: savouring coping response provide preliminary support conceptualizing future consider measuring further understanding following stressful life