Investigations of targeted coping skills could help guide initial treatment decisions for individuals with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol dependence (AD) who often endorse worse coping skills than those with AD but not PTSD. Although improvement in coping skills is associated with enhanced alcohol use outcomes, no study has evaluated the utility of teaching specif...

Introduction: Coping responses are complex dynamic behavioral reactions that involve reciprocal influences between emotion and cognition but cognitive studies in Iran have less emphasized coping responses of methamphetamine dependent individuals to distressing situations. To address this aim, the current study was designed to investigate the coping responses of a group of methamphetamine depend...

The literature suggests that the interaction between the exposure to high-risk situations, coping skills and self-efficacy underlie the relapse process. Research has also shown that self-efficacy is related to the avoidance of alcohol use and smoking and that high self-efficacy ratings exhibited during follow-up are associated with less substance use. The present study extended the existing res...

Background: Infertility is a stressful event for both couples; therefore investigation of coping styles can be helpful to show how to improve mental health in couple infertile. The aim of this study was to compare individual coping processes of men and women in infertile couples. Materials and Methods: Study participants were comprised of 142 men and women who were referred to Fatemeh Alzahra F...

BACKGROUND The aim of this research was to assess the relationship between coping mechanisms and eating disorders as well as to determine coping strategies as predictors of eating disorders pathology. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Participants included 52 females meeting the DSM-IV criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa and 55 university students. Assessment tools were the Brief Coping Orie...

This study examined the relationship between coping skills, working hours, and psychological health among Japanese daytime workers. Self-administered questionnaires were mailed to a randomly selected sample of 2,000 workers who were members of a pre-recruited market research panel. A total of 1,821 participants responded (response rate=91.1%). Participants completed a questionnaire regarding wo...