The study investigated age and gender effects on coping with common stressors among 494 Austrian children and adolescents (age 8-14 years). Participants were subdivided into subgroups of late children comprising third and fourth graders, early adolescents consisting of fifth and sixth graders, and middle adolescents including seventh graders. Middle adolescents showed a maladaptive coping patte...

In a study of children's patterns of coping with daily stressors, boys and girls 9-17 years old were asked to complete a coping checklist in response to one of four types of stressors--school, parents/family, siblings, or peer/interpersonal. Patterns of coping-strategy use were found to be similar across the various stressors, with wishful thinking, problem-solving, and emotional regulation bei...

breast cancer is the most common cancer among women that creates stress in physical, mental and spiritual aspects of patients’ lives. adjustment consequences for these patients may lead to post-traumatic growth including positive changes following the traumatic experience and/or return to the higher psychological level from what there was before that traumatic event. given the impacts of spirit...

aim and background: relationship enhancement is one of the life skill training programs and it could effect on couples coping styles with life tensions. this study aimed to investigate the effect of relationship enhancement on improving marital coping strategies of couples in isfahan. method and materials: the design of this study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control groups...

This study aimed to compare coping strategies in children of parents deceased from cancer and healed the city Shiraz, Iran. One-hundred fifteen people [58 57 cancer] were recruited this via a convenience sampling method. Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations was used measure different types [task-oriented strategy, emotion-oriented avoidance strategy]. The results showed that task-oriented ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the intensity of craving and the types of coping skills used by nicotine-dependent patients. METHOD This was an experimental study. The sample comprised 201 subjects, mean age 38.15 years. The participants were randomly divided into groups of zero, 30 and 60 minutes of nicotine abstinence. The following instruments wer...

The stability of the Ways of Coping (Revised) Questionnaire over time was assessed by comparing the scores of 68 mothers and 53 fathers of school-aged children with Down's syndrome over a 3-year time interval on the five coping strategy subscales described by Knussen et al. (1992). For this analysis, mothers' and fathers' scores were analysed separately. It was shown by t tests that mothers' an...