Coping with a major stressor: differences between habitual short- and longer-sleepers.
We compared the coping strategies of 39 short-sleepers and 33 longer-sleepers to the stresses associated with the October 17, 1989 San Francisco Bay Area earthquake using their responses to the eight scales of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire. Over-all, the short-sleepers scored significantly higher on this questionnaire and in general, the pattern of their responses was consistent with inferences that could be drawn from a 1972 paper by Hartmann, Baekeland, and Zwilling.
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Department of Psychology, San Jose State University, CA 95192.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001143:Arousal; D004190:Disasters; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D010556:Personality Tests; D012894:Sleep Stages; D013997:Time Factors