ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE APPRAISAL AND COPING LINKAGES USING 2 FORMS OF CANONICAL CORRELATION

As a conceptual framework for research on stress and coping, the trans actional model of Lazarus and Folkman is process-oriented and requires methodologies that capture the process nature of cognitive appraisal and coping across stages of a transaction. Two forms of canonical corr elation were used to analyze strength of association measures between pairs of cognitive appraisal and coping variable sets for 138 student subjects. Analysis indicated that, when an environmental transaction i ncludes more than one time period, the generalized canonical correlati on approach may offer some advantages in assessing linkage strength ov er the pairwise method.