title: Is a repressive-defensive coping style really so bad? Comment on DeNeve and Cooper (1998).
abstract: This comment refers to the meta-analysis of K. M. DeNeve and H. Cooper showing that repressive defensiveness compared with 136 other personality traits was most strongly, but negatively, related to subjective well-being. It is shown that for theoretical and empirical reasons the relationship cannot be negative.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany. pauls@staff.uni-marburg.de
authors.forename: Cornelia A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Pauls
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D012094:Repression, Psychology