Relationship between for Utilized Circumstances Skills and Stress Coping, Subjective Adjustment in Working Adult

Abstract

This study examined the utilized circumstances skills in working adults based on the Planned Happenstance Theory. A total of 1949 people in their 20s–50s participated in the web-based questionnaire survey. The results of the analysis showed the following three points: 1) The factor structure of the Utilized Circumstances Skills was confirmed to have the same six-factor structure as in the previous study; 2) Overall, working adults in their 50s scored higher than other age groups in the utilized circumstances skills. In addition, company owners and managers had higher utilized circumstances skills scores than other occupations, and the unemployed had lower scores than other occupations; 3) We examined the relationship between utilized circumstances skills, stress coping, and subjective adjustment. The results showed a positive relation between optimism/interpersonal ties skills and emotion-focused coping, and emotion-focused coping and subjective well-being. Optimism skills were related with subjective well-being. Helpfulness also found to comparable results to subjective well-being.