Trait Self-Control Predicts Adolescents’ Exposure and Reactivity to Daily Stressful Events

摘要: The current study used an influence model of personality and stress processes to examine the association between individual differences in trait self-control daily exposure reactivity adolescent youth. A total 129 adolescents (Mage = 14.7 years, 59% female) completed difference measures self-control, neuroticism, responses stress. Participants then reported on stressful events, severity, mood, coping, mindlessness (a predictor acting impulse) for 14 consecutive days. Self-control predicted less stress, more adaptive Specifically, with higher experienced fewer stressors lower particularly when was high. Second, response relative those but they did not show emotional Finally, results also offered evidence indirect effect problem-focused coping strategies investigation illustrates importance among suggests possible mechanisms through which confers these positive effects.