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Coping styles and personality: a biometric analysis.
Anxiety, stress, and coping - 1 Mar 2007
Jang Kerry L, Thordarson Dana S, Stein Murray B, Cohan Sharon L, Taylor Steven
Abstract excerpt
Previous research suggests that coping styles are modestly heritable and that this genetic influence is shared in large part with genetic influences on personality. To test this hypothesis, we estimated the heritable basis of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations in a sample of 91 monozygotic and 80 dizygotic twin pairs. Task-oriented, emotion-oriented, and social diversion coping styles were modestly...
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