background: using appropriate coping strategies has a positive influence on moderating mental pressures caused by infertility and the stress during treatment. using these strategies needs personal skills and they could be influenced by individual’s inner psychological and environmental factors. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the attitude toward infertility and copi...

Background & aim: Although pregnancy seems to be a pleasant experience in a women’s life, the accompanied physical and psychological changes lead to high levels of stress in mothers. Prenatal stress widely affects the physical and mental health of mothers and infants; therefore, adopting appropriate coping strategies are highly required. Considering the importance of coping strategies in psycho...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the moderating effects of various coping strategies on the association between stressors and the prevalence of major depression in the general population. METHODS Subjects from the Alberta buy-in component of the 1994-1995 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) were included in the analysis (n = 1039). Each subject was asked 8 questions about coping strategies that de...

Aims: The aim of the present study was to investigate the causal modeling of death anxiety in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder based on cognitive emotion regulation strategies and experiential avoidance with the mediating role of coping self-efficacy. Instrument & Methods: The research method was descriptive and structural equations. The statistical population of the present study...

PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to assess stress coping strategies employed by patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) and determine whether these approaches were associated with other psychopathological features. Ineffective stress coping strategies can have a variety of unhealthy consequences fueling psychopathology just as psychopathology can also have an impact ...

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...

This study examined coping with stress associated with employment uncertainty for comparable samples of laid-off and employed high-technology workers. It was expected that different coping strategies would be associated with perceived stress for employed vs. unemployed people. Although unemployed participants reported higher levels of stress compared with employed participants, employment uncer...

Introduction: Atopic dermatitis (AD) and contact dermatitis (CD) are among the most common out-patient dermatological diseases. Characteristic skin lesions are located mainly on visible body parts and could attract negative interest of the society. As a result, patients feel socially rejected (stigmatized). Stress coping strategies (concrete ways of coping with stress in different situations) c...