Pain coping strategies can be active or passive. Previous studies have examined these strategies separately, however individuals use combinations of both types of coping strategies. We examined the associations between sociodemographic, pain and health-related factors and combinations of active and passive strategies in a general population random sample of 1,131 adults. Individuals reporting n...

to understand the role of religiousness/spirituality in coping in children with cystic fibrosis (cf). participants were a convenience sample of 23 patients with cf, ages 5 to 12 years and their parent(s) in an ambulatory cf clinic. the design was a focused ethnography including in-depth interviews with children and parent(s), children’s drawings and self-administered written parental questionna...

BACKGROUND Mental health problems in young people are an important public health issue. Students leaving their hometown and family at a young age to pursue better educational opportunities overseas are confronted with life adjustment stress, which in turn affects their mental health and academic performance. This study aimed to examine the relationships among stress, coping strategies, and depr...

objectives : the behavioral-cognitive framework offers methods for stress assessment and its relevant coping strategies. the present study was designed to investigate stress management pattern of substance abusers. the results may be used for effective cognitive-behavioral interventions for these patients. method: one hundred substance abusers who sought treatment at addiction rehabilitation de...

Emotional state affects the physiological mechanism involved in phonation. Differences in acoustical parameters of the voice under stress have been attributed to the coping mechanism used, which is based on the individual's perception of the situation. This study examines the relationship between coping strategies, personality, and voice in female subjects, ranging in age from 19.3-55.7 years, ...

This study's goals were to examine coping strategies of women and their male partners as predictors of change in women's adjustment over the year following breast cancer treatment and to test whether partners' coping processes interact to predict adjustment. In a sample of women who had recently completed breast cancer treatment and were taking part in a psychoeducational intervention trial, th...

Research has proposed that when faced with a stressor, individuals test novel coping strategies when preexisting strategies fail to reduce perceived threat. However, the utilization of novel coping strategies has received scant empirical attention. This study presents data in the form of spontaneous comments or responses to open-ended questions from three previous quantitative studies of adapta...

According to various diathesis-stress models of schizophrenia, life stress plays a defining role in the onset and course of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. In this regard, individual differences in coping strategies and affective traits, variables related to the management and experience of stress, may play a large role in susceptibility to the disorder and symptom exacerbation. Furthermore, ...

BACKGROUND Maladaptive coping strategies may adversely disturb the overall functioning of people with mental disorders. Also, self-stigma is considered a maladaptive psychosocial phenomenon that can affect many areas of patient life. It has a negative impact on self-image, and may lead to dysphoria, social isolation, reduced adherence, using of negative coping strategies, and lower quality of l...