Progress and issues in the study of coping with stress during childhood and adolescence are reviewed. Definitions of coping are considered, and the relationship between coping and other aspects of responses to stress (e.g., temperament and stress reactivity) is described. Questionnaire, interview, and observation measures of child and adolescent coping are evaluated with regard to reliability a...

The aim of the present study was to assess the coping strategies among adults with mild intellectual disability. The study was conducted on 20 male and 20 female adults with mild intellectual disability. The study was also explored the specific types of coping strategies used by the adults with mild intellectual disability. Lifestress inventory (coping dimension) was administered to elicit the ...

OBJECTIVES Coping with stress plays a vital role in the adjustment of adolescents with diabetes. The majority of studies in this area leave out the control group, limiting their power to make inferences about specificity vs. similarity of coping strategies used by these adolescents. The aims of this study were: (1) To compare coping strategies in adolescents with diabetes and healthy adolescent...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between job burnout and sources of stress and coping strategies in the referees of iran premier league. 103 referees were selected as the sample. sources of stress inventory (voight, 2009), mbi (maslach & jackson, 1996) and wcq (billings & moos, 1981) were used to collect data. results showed a significant relationship between con...

It is accepted among scholars that coping changes as people mature during adolescence, but little is known about the relationship between maturity and coping. The purpose of this paper was to assess a model, which included dispositional coping, coping effectiveness, and cognitive social maturity. We predicted that cognitive social maturity would have a direct effect on coping effectiveness, and...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of coping styles is useful in clinical diagnosis and suggesting specific therapeutic interventions. However, the latent structures and relationships between different aspects of coping styles have not been fully clarified. A full information item bifactor model will be beneficial to future research. OBJECTIVE One goal of this study is identification of the best fit statis...

A burgeoning body of cultural coping research has begun to identify the prevalence and the functional importance of collective coping behaviors among culturally diverse populations in North America and internationally. These emerging findings are highly significant as they evidence culture's impacts on the stress-coping process via collectivistic values and orientation. They provide a critical ...

BACKGROUND Prevention of new HIV infections is a critical imperative for South Africa; the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) is one of the most efficacious HIV prevention interventions. OBJECTIVE Assessment of a PMTCT programme to determine missed opportunities. SETTING The Kouga local service area (LSA), bordering Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (Port Elizabeth) in the Eas...

down syndrome (ds) is a birth defect with huge medical and social costs, caused by trisomy of whole or part of chromosome 21. it is the most prevalent genetic disease worldwide and the common genetic cause of intellectual disabilities appearing in about 1 in 400-1500 newborns. although the syndrome had been described thousands of years before, it was named after john langdon down who described ...

background the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and coping style among university students. material and methods the sample consisted of 239 female university students that were selected by multistep sampling; it lasted from jul. to oct. 2011. they reply to 2 scales: 1) neo personality traits questionnaire and 2) ciss coping style scale. data ...