To increase our understanding of stress-resistance factors in college students, we examined whether the importance attached to certain issues would distinguish among 123 students who evaluated recent stressful life events positively or negatively. For a subsample of undergraduate students, 16 positive evaluators considered Intimacy and Adventure less important than 24 negative evaluators.
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