Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Foreword, Adrian Furnham; Introduction, A.-S. Antoniou and C.L. Cooper. Part I Conceptualization and Theoretical Framework: Coping and personality: approaches, measurement and challenges, Philip Dewe; Future-oriented coping and personality, Suzie Drummond and Paula Brough; Politics, personality and surviving the workplace, Ashley Weinberg. Part II Personality and Coping with Work-Related Stress and Professional Burnout: Links between personality, work-related stress and health, Nico Dragano, Morten Wahrendorf and Thorsten Lunau; Joint moderating effects of self-efficacy and coping on social stressor-psychological strain relationships in Greater China: evidence from three subregions, Oi-Ling Siu, Paul E. Spector, Chang-qin Lu and Luo Lu; Burnout and the battle for your own happiness, Edwin A. Locke and Ellen Kenner; Striving for a stress-free workplace: examining the role of positive personality on coping and burnout, Nicholas J. Gailey and Tahira M. Probst; Perceived responsiveness, stress, and coping in the workplace, Cameron T. McCabe, Sarah Arpin and Cynthia D. Mohr. Part III Coping and the Role of Resilience: The psychology of resilience: defining, categorizing and measuring resilience, Luke Treglown and Adrian Furnham; Examining proactive coping and resilience within the context of the economic recession, Constance A. Mara and Esther R. Greenglass; Investigating teachers' well-being and the role of resilience, Maria Armaou and Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou. Part IV Personality and Coping in Educational Settings: The role of personality traits in the perception of occupational stress and the coping style of teachers: a few points to consider, Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Antigoni Garyfallaki; Stress, coping and drug abuse of high achieving students: the role of personality traits, Marina Dalla and Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou; Coping strategies and personality dimensions of teachers in primary and secondary education, Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Eftychia Mitsopoulou. Part V Personality and Coping with Job Loss: The role of personality in coping with job loss and job insecurity, Tahira M. Probst and Jesse L. Byrd; Coping after job loss: impact of unemployment on work attitudes of the reemployed, Tabea Scheel and Kathleen Otto. Part VI Specific Issues on Personality Traits and Coping Mechanisms: Applying attachment styles to workplace incivility, Michael P. Leiter; Economic crisis and business distress, Panagiotis E. Petrakis; From soldier to citizen: examining the role of political skill in veterans' experiences in the civilian workplace, Kaylee J. Hackney, Charn P. McAllister, Jeremy D. Mackey, Joshua C. Palmer and Pamela L. Perrewe; Morbidity and mortality in popular musicians: an examination by era, sex and music genre, Dianna T. Kenny. Part VII Challenges in the Coping Process: A scheme for workaholism intervention including cognitive, affective and behavioural techniques, Bruce David Kirkcaldy, Diana Malinowska, Sabina Staszczyk and Aleksandra Tokarz; Effects of contextual and personal resources on work-family interface, Ewelina Smoktunowicz, Magdalena Lesnierowska, Roman Cieslak and Charles C. Benight; Scrambling: an ability and a process, Jennifer K. Dimoff, Lenora A. Collins and E. Kevin Kelloway. Index.

How an individual responds to crises and critical incidents at work, both immediately and subsequent to the event, is heavily influenced both by personality characteristics and their use of coping strategies. These can, in turn, be affected by levels of education, gender and even the profession within which the individual is working. Coping, Personality and the Workplace offers theory, research and practice on our ability to cope with dangerous situations, critical incidents or other work crises. The chapters include perspectives on social and health habits and risks; gender and age differences as well as a range of different sources of threat: financial, psychological and physical; those within and outside the individual’s control; immediate and chronic. For organizations, this collection provides help and advice to build into employee safety and support programmes; for policy makers, a sense of the emerging sources of risk related to occupational health and for researchers, an anthology of original applied research from some of the leading authors in three continents.