Patients undergoing rehabilitation have been evidenced to improve in different ways depending on their coping styles. Amplifiers, Repressors, and Social Copers are examples of patients who present differently in rehabilitation settings and tend to have differing levels of success in their response to treatment. The current study examined the differential treatment outcomes of three coping style...

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...

The relationship between coping styles and mental health has received considerable attention, but the state effects on coping measures in a clinical sample are not well known. This study investigated changes in scores on the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations between two treatment phases (acute and remitted phase) in 49 outpatients with major depression or anxiety disorders. Task-oriente...

Stress is the key psychological activator of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and therefore an important risk factor for diminished immunocompetence. The aim of the study was to assess the connection between the strategies of coping with stress and lymphocyte counts in soldiers. Coping strategies were evaluated in 61 Slovenian Army members using the Coping Responses Inventory. White bloo...

background: one of the most common mental health problems among women with infertility problems is depression. research has shown that religious beliefs and practices can help people to cope with difficult situations. the purpose of this study was to explore the role of different religious coping strategies in predicting depression in a group of infertile women in shiraz. methods: a total of 72...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of coping stress skills training on stress and problem solving skill in Taleghani dormitory students in Kermanshah medical sciences university. The research method is experimental and has been done with pre-test, post-test and control group. Research tools were Harry inventory (2005) and Endler and Parker coping scale of stressful situation (1...

The main objective of this study was to investigate whether the personality dimension of conformism/nonconformism was a predictor of stress coping styles in athletes training combat sports, and to present the characteristics of this personality dimension in the context of the competitors' adaptive/innovative sport performance. Scores of 346 males practising combat sports such as kick boxing, MM...

Two studies evaluated the dimensionality of the COPE inventory (Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub, 1989) and examined its relationships with approachand avoidance-motives and positive and negative traits. In Study 1, four coping factors emerged, three of which reflected either self-sufficient or socially-supported coping strategies, along with an avoidant-coping factor. Correlations of scales from t...

BACKGROUND Pain catastrophizing, appraisals of pain control, styles of coping, and social support have been suggested to affect functioning in patients with low back pain. We investigated the relation of chronic pain coping strategies to psychological variables and clinical data, in patients treated surgically due to lumbar disc herniation and coexisting spondylotic changes. MATERIAL AND METH...