Cognitive Appraisals, Coping Strategies, Optimism and Subjective Well - Being

The purpose of this study was testing the model of structural relationships between primary and secondary cognitive appraisals، optimism، coping strategies and subjective well-being among university students. 371 students (188 male and 183 female) completed the Stress Appraisal Measure (Rowley، Roesch، Jurica &Vaughn، 2005)، the Life Orientation Test-Revised (Schier، Carver & Bridges، 1994)، the Way of Coping Questionnaire-Revised (Folkman & Lazarus، 1985))، the Positive and Negative Affect Schedul (Watson، Clark & Tellegen) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Denier، Emmons، Larsen & Griffin). The result of structural equation modeling showed that hypothesized models had an acceptable fit to the data. In mediating model of task-oriented coping strategies، resources and challenge with optimism and task-oriented a significant positive relationship and the results indicated a significant negative relationship between threat with optimism and task-oriented coping. In addition the results showed significant positive relationship between optimism and task-oriented with well-being and between task-oriented and well-being. In contrast، mediating model of tension reduction، resources and challenge with tension reduction showed a non-significant negative relationship and the results indicated a non-significant positive relationship with tension reduction. Results also indicated that the relationship between primary and secondary appraisals with subjective well-being by optimism and task- oriented is mediated partially. In mediating models of adaptive and non-adaptive coping strategies، Models predictors accounted for 76% and 80% of the variance in subjective well-being، respectively.