Action-Emotion Style, Learning Approach and Coping Strategies, in Undergraduate University Students

作者：de la Fuente Jesus^*; Manuel Martinez Vicente Jose; Luis Salmeron Jose; Vera Manuel M; Cardelle Elawar Maria

来源：Anales de Psicologia, 2016, 32(2): 457-465.

DOI：10.6018/analesps.32.2.197991

• Type-a behavior pattern
• learning approach
• coping strategies
• stress
• ex post facto study

Action-Emotion Style (AES) is an affective-motivational construct that describes the achievement motivation that is characteristic of students in their interaction with stressful situations. Using elements from the Type-A Behavior Pattern (TABP), characteristics of competitiveness and overwork occur in different combinations with emotions of impatience and hostility, leading to a classification containing five categories of action-emotion style (Type B, Impatient-hostile type, Medium type, Competitive-Overworking type and Type A). The objective of the present research is to establish how characteristics of action-emotion style relate to learning approach (deep and surface approaches) and to coping strategies (emotion-focused and problem-focused). The sample was composed of 225 students from the Psychology degree program. Pearson correlation analyses, ANOVAs and MANOVAs were used. Results showed that competitiveness-overwork characteristics have a significant positive association with the deep approach and with problem-focused strategies, while impatience-hostility is thus related to surface approach and emotion focused strategies. The level of action-emotion style had a significant main effect. The results verified our hypotheses with reference to the relationships between action-emotion style, learning approaches and coping strategies.

• 出版日期2016-5