Positive emotions, coping strategies and ego-resiliency: A mediation model

We conducted the present study in the light of the Broaden-and-Build Model of Positive Emotions (Fredrickson, 2001) which contends that broad-minded coping is the cause and the consequence of positive emotions experiencing and that these affective states build ego-resiliency. The purposes of this research were to test, on a sample of 113 workers, a mediation model in which three adaptive coping strategies were predictor variables, ego-resiliency was the criterion variable and positive emotions the mediator. Mediation modelling revealed indirect effects, in that both approach coping and self-help coping predict positive emotions experiencing which, in turn, foster ego-resiliency. Accommodation coping directly predicts ego-resiliency without the mediation of positive emotions.