Happiness and coping styles

The present paper's aim was to study the relationships between happiness and coping styles. It was found that both happy men and women were high on mapping and low on substitution. In addition, happy men were lower on blame. Happy women were high or minimization, suppression, mapping and reversal, and lower on substitution. Some similarities of the relationships between (a) extraversion and happiness, and (b) between happiness, optimism, and coping styles, were pointed out.