Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1. A vote was taken twice. In 2004, greater than 50% favored the name change; in 2011, greater than 2/3 favored it, which was the margin required by divisional bylaws for a change in its name. One of the authors voted for, and one voted against, the name change.2. The present discussion is with reference to Western, especially American, contexts. Less was known about the issues in question in other areas, thus these remarks could not automatically generalize to other cultures or regions of the world.3. Thus, it does not help when scholars insist that they have always used this particular definition and that it has always worked for them.4. Space constraints preclude elaborating on this point, but ample documentation is evident upon examination of graduate or undergraduate texts in coping and social psychology.5. One European university that has made such a decision is the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. It has adopted a policy to proactively facilitate interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
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Paloutzian et al. (2014) studied this question.