This study focused on the influence of gender, age and emotion regulation on coping strategies among university students in Botswana. Sixty-four males and 64 females, ranging in age from 18 to 29 years completed the Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale and the Coping Strategy Inventory. Female students used wishful thinking and problem-focused disengagement more than male students; however, t...

This sectional study was performed with the objective to verify the association between the forms of coping used by people on chronic hemodialysis and their socio-demographic variables. A semi-structured instrument and the Folkman and Lazarus' Coping Strategies Inventory were used. The sample consisted of 107 adults, mostly male (62.4%), on ambulatory hemodialysis for over six months. The most ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE Effective play and coping skills may be important determinants of children's adaptive behavior. Play and coping have undergone extensive individual study; however, these two variables have not been explored in relationship to each other. METHOD The play behaviors of 19 randomly selected preschool children were rated by researchers using The Test of Playfulness. The children's coping...

PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE COPING INVENTORY FOR STRESSFULSITUATIONS IN INDIVIDUALS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURYby HILLARY A. GREENEMay 2013Advisor: Dr. Lisa J. RapportMajor: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Master of ScienceAlthough research suggests that coping style affects recovery from traumatic brain injury(TBI), research on assessment of coping style aft...

BACKGROUND Depressed mood and stress are associated with recurrent adverse outcomes following acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but the impact of psychological coping style has not been evaluated in detail. AIMS We tested the relationship between task-oriented coping and event-free survival following ACS. METHOD We followed 158 patients with ACS for an average of 59.8 months for major adverse ...

The study was designed to examine the relations between negative affect, coping, and emotional eating. It was tested whether emotion-oriented coping and avoidance distraction, alone or in interaction with negative affect, were related to increased levels of emotional eating. Participants were 125 eating-disordered women and 132 women representing a community population. Measures included the Po...

The intensity of stress experiences and elaboration of coping essentially depend on individuals' cognitive assessment. Considering the cognitive impairment of elderly persons with Alzheimer's disease (DA), this study aimed to identify their coping style. The Jalowiec Coping Inventory was applied to 60 elderly, 30 in the control group and 30 in the DA group. The results demonstrated a predominan...