Personality psychology addresses views of human nature and individual differences.
Biological and goal-based views of human nature provide an especially useful basis for
construing coping; the five-factor model of traits adds a useful set of individual differences.
Coping—responses to adversity and to the distress that results—is categorized in many
ways. Meta-analyses link optimism, extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to more
engagement coping; neuroticism to more disengagement coping; and optimism�…