Consistency in European seabass coping styles: A life-history approach

Coping Styles and Aggression: A Biobehavioral Approach

Health and stress-related disease are generally considered to be influenced by a complex interplay between the actual environmental demands and the individual’s capacity to cope with these demands. A wide variety of medical, psychological, and biological studies both in humans and in animals demonstrate that individuals may differ in their capacities to cope with such environmental demands. Fac...

Behavioural consistency and life history in Rana dalmatina

Psychological defenses and coping styles in patients following a life-threatening attack of asthma.

Twenty-five patients who have suffered a near miss asthma death (NMAD) have undergone a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation on average 13 months following this event. Forty percent of the patients were judged to have psychiatric disorders at the time of assessment. All patients had very high levels of denial and following the NMAD, patients appeared to either decompensate psychiatrically, usua...

Coping styles in prodromes of bipolar mania.

OBJECTIVES Psychological studies have identified that different coping strategies affect outcome in bipolar disorder (BD), with the possibility of preventing mania by effective coping with prodromes. This study seeks to examine coping mechanisms using a recently developed scale to clarify the relationship of coping styles to clinical and demographic characteristics, and to identify coping diffe...

Insight, distress and coping styles in schizophrenia

BACKGROUND The stigma and negative societal views attached to schizophrenia can make the diagnosis distressing. There is evidence that poor insight into symptoms of the disorder and need for treatment may reflect the use of denial as a coping style. However, the relationships between insight and other coping styles have seldom been investigated. METHOD We examined the associations between ins...