AIM The aim of this study was to diagnose particular personality characteristics of women with suicide attempts: psychological femininity and masculinity, self-appeal, attachment styles, self-presentation strategies and coping styles. METHOD A group of 35 adult women who attempted suicide and the control group (35 women) were submitted to a research. The following measures were used: Inventor...

The aim of this prospective quasi-experimental study was to assess the role of coping style as a factor moderating the relationship between stress and sleep. Sleep of 36 students was assessed by means of actigraphy and daily logs during low-stress and high-stress periods. The high-stress period was the week that the students were evaluated for acceptance to graduate programs in clinical psychol...

Direct effects and buffering models were tested in relation to cognitive hardiness and coping for general health and psychological functioning. Mature age university students (N=187) completed measures assessing life event stress and traumatic life experiences (independent variables) cognitive hardiness and coping style (moderator variables), and general health, somatization, anxiety and depres...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of external influence to parental distress when making a decision about research or treatment for a child with a life-threatening illness and to test potential moderators of this relationship. METHODS Parents (n = 219) who made a decision about research or treatment for a child completed measures of external influence, distress, decision-making preference...

background: anesthesiology residents are susceptible to different mood and anxiety disorders. the aim of this research was to determine and compare stress coping styles and clinical performances in anesthesiology residents with type d and non-d personality. methods: this is a causative – comparative research. anesthesiology residents at academic department of anesthesiology in tehran university...

aim and background: asthma is a chronic illness that can severely affect people's lives. the aim of this study was to compare anxiety, depression, brain behavioural systems (bis-bas), coping styles, anger and hostility among people with and without asthma. methods and materials: fifty women with asthma attending shahid motahhari specialized clinic in shiraz and 50 normal women were selected usi...

The present research examined the perceptual style and coping pattern characterizing individuals with functional gastrointestinal disorders. A matched case-control design was adopted to compare differences among the target group of individuals with functional gastrointestinal disorders (n = 40), a pain control group of individuals with rheumatism (n = 40), and the community control group of hea...

BACKGROUND The relationship between depression and heart disease is very complex. In the group of patients with depression the coronary artery disease risk factors related to lifestyle (lack of physical activity, smoking, hypertension, and diabetes) are frequently observed. For many years, researchers have been interested in the relationship between personality and the tendency to collapse on s...

Stressors like academic tasks, job hunting, and interpersonal interaction are exerting great pressure on Chinese senior college students that may further elicit anxiety (1). Studies that focused on influencing factors of anxiety suggested that optimism could inspire individuals to pay more efforts to deal with emotional problems and in turn reduce negative psychological reactions such as anxiet...