Objective: Personality is the most important infrastructure factor in addiction, and substance abusers have certain personal weaknesses that make them vulnerable to addiction. This study examined the role of sensation-seeking and coping strategies in predicting drug addiction in high school students.  Methods: This study is a descriptive–correlational research. Multi-stage cluster sampling w...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the analysis was to examine the temporal course of improvement in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder among women in outpatient substance abuse treatment. METHOD Participants were 353 women randomly assigned to 12 sessions of either trauma-focused or health education group treatment. PTSD and substance use assessments were condu...

Background: Majority of prison inmates live in poor living conditions. Lack of meaningful activity, endemic substance abuse, recurrent violence and sexual exploitation, loss of freedom, separation from family and friends, uncertainty about the future, and the traumas of prison life all contribute to making living in prison a stressful experience. Prison inmates usually apply inappropriate copin...

Background: The predominance of a coping strategy over another is determined, in part, by personal style and also by the type of threatening event. Objective: To compare the coping strategies of HIV discordant and concordant couples in comprehensive health centers in a Southeastern state in Nigeria. Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional comparative study of 289 (148 HIV concordant a...

The prevalence of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use among US middle-aged and older adults is increasing. A subset of this population uses substances to cope with stress, but the characteristics of these individuals, and the association between substance-use coping and health outcomes remain unclear. We identified correlates of substance-use coping and measured its association with self-rated healt...

AIM To investigate the association between life-style and socioeconomic factors and coping strategies in a community sample in Iran. METHOD As part of a community-based study called Isfahan Healthy Heart Program, we studied 17593 individuals older than 19 living in the central part of Iran. Demographic and socioeconomic factors (age, sex, occupation status, marital status, and educational lev...

Adaptive coping and self-regulation are critical for students' academic and professional development. Mindfulness meditation and mindfulness based programs present a promising option for those wishing to reduce stress and anxiety levels, improve self-regulation and coping strategies and or reduce the need for substance use. This paper sought to review the literature concerning the relationship ...

objective: breast cancer as a most common invasive cancer in women, provoking mental disorders for patients. to adjust with this situation, patients use kind of coping style. in present study, we aimed to determine the relationship between mental disorders and coping style in women with breast cancer.  methods: this research was a correlational study. 127 women among all women with breast cance...