Author:
Elena Libin
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, United States
Keyword(s):
Life Difficulties, Multidimensional Positive Coping Model, Coping Intelligence, Self-management Skills, Theory for Multimedia Education, Well-being Assessment, Effective Coping, Defensive Behaviours.
Abstract:
This paper presents a new approach to the theory of multimedia well-being literacy education based on the concept of Coping Intelligence. Multidimensional Positive Coping Model includes three cross-cutting parameters differentiating each coping strategy as efficient or inefficient, emotional, cognitive or behavioral, and active or passive. Results of the statistical analysis verified a basic two-factor structure of the Coping Intelligence with the alternative solutions for efficient and inefficient coping strategies characterized via three basic modalities. The unified methodology underlying the new concept of Coping Intelligence, as well as \emph{Coping IQ} assessment, is applicable for developing multimedia well-being literacy applications for both clinical and general populations. \emph{CIQ} parameters might serve as useful feedback while assessing changes in individual coping repertoire, for it measures not stable traits, but strategies that can be modified as a result of life ex
periences or educational training.
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