Anales de psicología Vol. 32, Nº 2 (2016)

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    Action-Emotion Style, Learning Approach and Coping Strategies,in Undergraduate University Students
    (Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de Murcia, 2016) De la Fuente, Jesús; Martínez-Vicente, José Manuel; Salmerón, José Luis; Vera, Manuel M.; Cardelle-Elawar, María
    Action-Emotion Style (AES) is an affective-motivational con-struct that describes the achievement motivation that is characteristic of students in their interaction with stressful situations. Using elements from the Type-A Behavior Pattern (TABP), characteristics of competitiveness and overwork occur in different combinations with emotions of impa-tience and hostility, leading to a classificationcontaining five categories of action-emotion style (Type B, Impatient-hostile type, Medium type, Com-petitive-Overworking type and Type A). The objective of the present re-search is to establish how characteristics of action-emotion style relate to learningapproach (deep and surface approaches) and to coping strategies (emotion-focused and problem-focused). The sample was composed of 225 students from the Psychology degree program. Pearson correlation analyses, ANOVAs and MANOVAs were used. Results showed that competitiveness-overwork characteristics have a significant positive associ-ation with the deep approach and with problem-focused strategies, while impatience-hostility is thus related to surface approach and emotion-focused strategies. The level of action-emotion style had a significant main effect. The results verified our hypotheses with reference to the rela-tionships between action-emotion style, learning approaches and coping strategies