Chronic disability in children imposes great strains on a family. The responsibility of mothering disabled children may be detrimental to the well-being of mothers. This study aims to assess the different types of coping styles of mothers with disabled children and its influencing factors. It is a cross-sectional study using Coping Inventory Stressful Situation (CISS) scale to determine the mot...

AIM We wanted to understand coping strategies specific to different phases up to two years after radiotherapy, to identify patients who are at higher risk of mood disturbances and to characterise the association between coping strategies and psychosocial adaptation. PATIENTS AND METHODS From 1997 to 2001, 2,169 patients with different diagnoses were screened (27.8% refused to participate). Da...

Alimoglu MK, Gurpinar E, Mamakli S, Aktekin M. Ways of coping as predictors of satisfaction with curriculum and academic success in medical school. Adv Physiol Educ 35: 33–38, 2011; doi:10.1152/advan.00100.2010.—The purpose of the present study was to determine the coping strategies of medical students and to investigate the effects of coping strategies on student satisfaction and academic achi...

Religious coping now represents a key variable of interest in research on health outcomes, not only because many individuals turn to their faith in times of illness, but also because studies have frequently found that religious coping is associated with desirable health outcomes. The purpose of this article is to familiarize readers with recent investigations of religious coping in samples with...

BACKGROUND Although prior research indicates that religious and spiritual coping is associated with positive health outcomes, few studies have examined religious and spiritual coping among patients with emphysema. OBJECTIVE To describe the utilization of religious and spiritual coping and its relationship to quality of life among patients with emphysema, in a 2-year longitudinal follow-up st...

BACKGROUND There is evidence for an association between suicidal behavior and coping style among adolescents. AIMS The aims of this study were to examine associations between coping style, mental health factors, and self-harm thoughts and acts among Irish adolescents, and to investigate whether coping style mediates associations between mental health factors (depression, anxiety, and self-est...

This paper examines existing research on the impact of terrorism on expatriate coping strategies. We consider pre-assignment fear of terrorism, in-country coping strategies, and anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with repatriation. The extant research is small but growing. Our model for expatriate coping at the pre-departure, in-country, and repatriation stages includes...

Researchers recently have suggested that coping flexibility (i.e., an individual's ability to modify and change coping strategies depending on the context) may be an important way to investigate coping. The availability of numerous coping strategies may be an important precursor to coping flexibility, given that flexibility can only be obtained if an individual is able to access and use differe...

The present study was conducted to assess the types of coping styles among the spouses of patients with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder and schizoaffective disorder. One hundred and sixteen (116 out of which 58 male and 58 female) spouses of diagnosed patients as per the DSM IV TR criteria with psychotic disorders were selected through purposive sampling. The C...