The study aimed to examine: (i) the association between perception of infertility controllability and coping strategies; and (ii) the association between perception of infertility controllability and coping strategies to psychological distress, applying multivariate statistical techniques to control for the effects of demographic variables. This cross-sectional study included 137 women with fer...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between maternal stress exposure, stress coping styles, and pregnancy complications. DESIGN Quantitative, cross-sectional, and prospective study. SETTING Tulane-Lakeside Hospital, New Orleans, LA and Women's Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA. PARTICIPANTS The study included 146 women (122 from New Orleans and 24 from Baton Rouge), who were pregnant during or ...

BACKGROUND Some personality traits and coping styles could be as risk factors in stressful situations. This study aimed to investigate the association of personality traits and coping styles according to the stress level. METERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed in 2011. A total of 4628 individuals over 20 years were selected by random sampling from nonacademic employees...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have established that medical school is a stressful place but coping styles and resilience have not been adequately addressed as protective factors. METHOD Using a cross-sectional design, 155 students were surveyed using the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, and the Canadian Community Health Survey Coping Scale. Mean scores were compared by ...

Objective. Dyadic coping is one way in which partners support one another and share coping responsibility in response to a stressor (Bodenmann, 2005). While there is some literature on the positive effects of dyadic coping in romantic relationships on health behaviors, less is known about the way in which it can moderate alcohol consumption. Furthermore, virtually nothing is known about dyadic ...

INTRODUCTION Stress coping has been defined as the cognitive and behavioral efforts made to conquer, endure, or decrease external and internal demands and the conflicts between them. It has two main elements: the control or modification of the person-environment relationship causing the stress (i.e., problem-focused coping) and/or regulation of stressful feelings (i.e., emotion-focused coping)....

Background: Infertility can lead to major bio-psychological disorders. Coping strategies help individuals adapt to unpredictable conditions in a systematic way. The present study aimed to determine the perceived stress of couples undergoing treatment for infertility, as well as their coping strategies and correlation between the studied variables and gender.  Methods: This was a cross-sectiona...

PURPOSE This study aimed to assess possible interactive effects of coping styles and psychological stress on depression and anxiety symptoms in Chinese women shortly after diagnosis of breast cancer. METHODS Four hundred and one patients with breast cancer were face-to-face interviewed by trained research staff according to a standardized questionnaire including information on socio-demograph...

background and purpose: cardiovascular diseases are the most common causes of death worldwide and stress is the reason behind many negative emotions. surgery is one of the most stressful situations. coping styles and life expectancy affect people's mental and physical efficacy. the present study aims to determine the effectiveness of training life expectancy and effective coping styles to ...

OBJECTIVE College students face a significant number of stressors, increasing risk for internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. The current study examines two promising avenues of intervention aimed to reduce stress and prevent psychopathology in this population: a coping skills group and a cognitive training program. PARTICIPANTS 62 undergraduate students from two universities were r...