The present study examines the association between coping and personality, by testing the hypothesis that dispositional coping mediates the relationship between personality and psychological distress. Canonical correlations evaluated the degree of the association among personality and coping dimensions in a community sample (N = 489) from Cyprus. Results partially support the hypothesized media...

OBJECTIVE To summarise the evidence on the effect of psychological coping styles (including fighting spirit, helplessness/hopelessness, denial, and avoidance) on survival and recurrence in patients with cancer. DESIGN Systematic review of published and unpublished prospective observational studies. MAIN OUTCOMES MEASURES Survival from or recurrence of cancer. RESULTS 26 studies investigat...

abstract: this study was aimed to investigate relationship between child rearing styles and young’s early maladaptive schemas(emss).the child rearing questionnaire and young’s schema questionnaire ( short form) was administered to a sample of 150 students in college. multiple regression analysis revealed that child rearing styles predicted some of emss. results indicated that authoritative styl...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to explore latent profiles of coping in Chinese women newly diagnosed with breast cancer and examine the differences of psychological distress, demographic, and medical characteristics across profiles. METHODS Latent profile analysis was used to identify 3 classes of copers based on data from 618 Chinese women newly diagnosed with breast cancer who completed question...

Using three samples, researchers investigated the relation between various anxiety levels, coping strategy use, and menstrual cycle phase to menstrual distress. In Studies 1 and 2, women low in anxiety sensitivity used more acceptance coping strategies and women high in anxiety sensitivity reported using more maladaptive coping strategies. In Study 2, women with medium anxiety sensitivity repor...

Miige Ersoy-Kart, and Ozgna Guldii (2005), Vulnerability to stress, perceived social support, and coping styles among chronic hemodialysis. The aim of this study was to investigate how coping mechanisms differ between hemodialysis patients and healthy people. The sample consisted of 110 adults (55 hemodialysis patients and 55 age and sex-matched healthy subjects). The shorter coping style scale...