Age Difference in Perceived Information Processing Styles in Stress

In this study we have attempted to find the construct of perceived information processing styles and to explain age difference in coping with stress. According to factor analysis of Perceived Modes of Processing Inventory (K-PMPI) from students and older adults, information based coping styles consist of emotional processing based on feeling and intuition, rational processing by using systematic and logical reasoning to solve problems and automatic processing from past experience. These 3 factors constitute the same items for students and older adults, and all factors have shown sufficient internal consistency. These results indicate that the perceived information processing styles is seen as cognitive process as trait over lifespan. Compared to processing styles there are differences between students and older adults: students used rational processing, however older adults used emotional processing. The more students used rational processing, the less they used emotional processing. But older adults, who used emotional processing, tend to used rational processing. It is concluded that the dominant coping styles of emotional processing of older adult is not caused by specific situational demands, but it is due to individual factors like mature. It is discussed that individual experience and mature lead older adults to emotional processing.

keywords: Perceived Mode of Processing Inventory, coping style in older adults, mature, Perceived Mode of Processing Inventory, coping style in older adults, mature, 정보처리과정지각 척도, 성인노인의 대처과정, 성숙

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Vol.9 No.3

Age Difference in Perceived Information Processing Styles in Stress

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The Korean Journal of Health Psychology