OBJECTIVE To investigate the perceived social support systems`, and depression`s effects on attitudes regarding coping strategies for the disease in patients with epilepsy. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 182 epileptic patients who applied to the Neurology Polyclinics of the Faculty of Medicine at Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey between November 2011 and November 2012....

Background: A great deal of attention has been given to the study of learning disorders. Hence, the aim of this research was to study the effect of emotion regulation training in decreasing emotion failures and self-injurious behaviors among students suffering from specific learning disorder. Methods: This was an experimental study with the pre-test, post-test and a control group. Research p...

The higher prevalence of health problems in homosexual compared to heterosexual populations is usually understood as a consequence of minority stress. We hypothesized that differential rates of health problems also could result from sexual orientation-related differences in coping styles. We explored this using data collected in a general population-based study (N = 9684) via face-to-face inter...

Emotion knowledge is a fundamental part of human commonsense knowledge. For the lack of solid knowledge extraction work in this domain, this paper focuses on acquiring and representing the antecedent situations of various emotions as well as the emotion subjects’ interpretation to these situations in real-world emotion-eliciting scenarios. After a comprehensive analysis on the meaning structure...

objectives the aim of this study was to model, assay, and plan a model to reveal the structural relations between psychological factors, including parenting, novelty seeking, problem behavior, and coping strategies, for addiction potential. patients and methods structural equation modeling (sem) was used to evaluate the relationship between parenting styles and addiction potential with mediator...

Origins of mothers' and fathers' beliefs about infant crying were examined in 87 couples. Parents completed measures of emotion minimization in the family of origin, depressive symptoms, empathy, trait anger, and coping styles prenatally. At 6 months postpartum, parents completed a self-report measure of their beliefs about infant crying. Mothers endorsed more infant-oriented and less parent-or...

Information on the psychometric properties of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) in acquired brain injury (ABI) is currently unavailable. Therefore, we investigated the construct and discriminant, convergent, and divergent validity of the CISS in a Dutch adult sample with newly ABI (N = 139). Patients were recruited at the start of outpatient neurorehabilitation (time since di...