this survey-study carried out among 360 randomly selected farmers living in drought-prone areas of fars province, iran, set out to investigate the perceptions and psychologi-cal coping strategies of farmers when facing drought. results showed that farmers per-ceived drought as a threat to all of their resources (material, conditions, personal, social and energies) and used emotion-focused and r...

objective: to compare the emotional structure and coping strategies in patients with psychogenic non epileptic seizures, epilepsy and control group. methods: among patients with complaining of epilepsy attacks that referred to clinic of imam reza (peace be upon him) in shiraz, 30 patients with psychogenic non epileptic seizures and 30 patients with epilepsy were selected .a total of 30 patients...

People who feel embarrassed are often motivated to avoid social contact--that is, to hide their face. At the same time, they may be motivated to restore the positive image that has been tarnished by the embarrassing event (or, in other words, to restore the face lost in the event). Individuals can symbolically employ these coping strategies by choosing commercial products that literally either ...

Background Nursing students in the clinical setting experience a high level of stress. The understanding of people involved in nursing education, from coping strategies of nursing students with clinical stress, is highly important for any kind of planning in this field. Objective To explore the coping strategies of Iranian nursing students with stress in a clinical setting. Methods This qua...

background & aim: the purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between stress coping styles and quality of life (qol) among patients with breast cancer. methods:this descriptive correlational study was conducted on 50 patients with breast cancer, selected via convenience sampling in kerman, iran. to collect data stress coping strategy scale (moss and billings, 1982) and th...

An inferior body image is the main diagnostic criterion for eating disorders and it is positively correlated with avoidance coping strategy using. The users of avoidance coping strategy indicate attentional bias to attractive stimuli (Kwak & Lee, 2007). Also they show more negative affect, stress, and body dissatisfaction after exposure to appearance-related stimuli than before exposure (Stewar...

background: the main purpose of the present paper is to examine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on perceived stress, stress coping strategies and illness perception in women with ulcerative colitis.   materials and methods: this is an experimental study performed as pretest and post-test. the population consists of woman suffering from ulcerative colitis in isfahan. the s...

objective: the aim of our study was to investigate the effect of coping strategies, personality trait and social support as the main social and psychological factors on infertility stress. materials and methods: this study was conducted on 201 infertile iranian women referred to the vali-e-asr reproductive health research center, and completed the following questionnaires: the fertility problem...

Background: Infertility is a serious medical problem with effects on quality of life Various factors such as social-demographic factors, cognitive perceptions and coping strategies can affect emotional reactions to infertility and its treatment. Objectives: This study aims to identify Fertility quality of life (Fertiqol) of infertile couples and the role of coping strategies, duration and caus...