Importance of central issues and students positive evaluation of life events.
To increase our understanding of stress-resistance factors in college students, we examined whether the importance attached to certain issues would distinguish among 123 students who evaluated recent stressful life events positively or negatively. For a subsample of undergraduate students, 16 positive evaluators considered Intimacy and Adventure less important than 24 negative evaluators.
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Graduate College, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1003, USA.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*