Coping flexibility is a promising approach to understanding risk and resilience, but it has been conceptualized in various ways. The aim of this study was to test convergence of coping-related flexibility measures with other coping-related competencies (coping self-efficacy, emotion regulation, decentering) and ways of coping. Participants were 885 students (M_age = 21.5 years) who completed measures of flexibility (seven subscales), coping self-efficacy, emotion dysregulation, decentering, and ways of coping with recent interpersonal stressors. Breadth of coping was also examined, given its past use as a measure of flexibility. The seven flexibility subscales converged with each other as expected, and all were associated with greater coping-related competence, with moderate or large positive associations between the four measures of coping flexibility ability and other measures of coping-related competence. Regarding associations with ways of coping, multivariate models showed that perceived ability in coping flexibility had positive associations with engagement and negative associations with disengagement coping, but multiple situational/adaptive coping flexibility subscales were associated positively with both engagement and disengagement ways of coping. In addition, some findings were weak or counterintuitive, especially when ways of coping and breadth were considered, suggesting a need for more attention to precisely conceptualizing and appropriately measuring coping flexibility.

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应对灵活性：可变性、适应性以及与功效、情绪调节、分散注意力和对压力的反应的关联

应对灵活性是理解风险和复原力的一种很有前途的方法，但它已经以各种方式被概念化。本研究的目的是测试与应对相关的灵活性措施与其他与应对相关的能力（应对自我效能、情绪调节、去中心化）和应对方式的收敛性。参加者为885名学生（M_年龄 = 21.5 岁），他们完成了灵活性（七个子量表）、应对自我效能、情绪失调、去中心化以及应对近期人际关系压力的方法。考虑到应对的广度过去被用作衡量灵活性的标准，因此还审查了应对的广度。七个灵活性分量表如预期的那样相互收敛，并且都与更大的应对相关能力相关，在应对灵活性能力的四个测量与其他应对相关能力的测量之间具有中等或较大的正相关。关于与应对方式的关联，多元模型表明，应对灵活性的感知能力与参与度呈正相关，而与脱离应对方式呈负相关，但多个情境/适应性应对灵活性分量表与参与和脱离应对方式呈正相关。此外，一些研究结果是薄弱或违反直觉的，尤其是在考虑应对方式和广度时，这表明需要更多地关注精确概念化和适当衡量应对灵活性。