Stress, Coping Styles, and Hopelessness in Self-Poisoners

Crisis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie L Elliott ◽  
Neil Frude
Keyword(s):  
Stress Level ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Linear Fashion ◽  
And Coping

This study examined the association between level of hopelessness with stress and coping style for a sample of 80 people who had recently attempted suicide. Higher levels of hopelessness were found to be associated with higher levels of stress. Level of hopelessness was also associated with the use of problem-focused but not with emotion-focused coping. Analyses of the interaction between stress and coping style suggested that these variables influence the level of hopelessness in an independent and linear fashion. The implications for clinical intervention are discussed.

The Relationship Among Occupational Stress, Coping Styles, and Mental Health of Pediatric Nurses in China: A Combination Study with the Application of the Spearman Correlation and Structural Equation Modelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Ting Zhou ◽  
Hua-Ying Yin ◽  
Xiao-Li Guo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Pediatric Nurses ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Background Pediatric nurses experience a wide rang of stressful events at work every day, which can trigger a lot of emotional responses. The objectives of this study were mainly to assess occupational stress, coping styles and mental health among pediatric nurses,and to explore the potential interrelationships of these factors. Methods A total of 381 pediatric nurses from Chongqing, China were recruited in this cross-sectional study. We performed this study based on a questionnaire survey that contained the Chinese Perceived Stress Scale (CPSS), Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire and Symptom-Checklist 90(SCL-90). Results The prevalence of healthy risk stress(HRS) in pediatric nurses was 54.3%, and nurses with different genders and professional titles have different occupational stress level. The result of the positive screen rates of mental healthy problems, by descending order, they were: obsessive-compulsive symptoms (52.0%), depression (33.1%), hostility (32.8%), and so on. Wilcoxon signed rank tests analysis showed pediatric nurses had both significantly higher risk mental health problems compared to general population and national nurse population. And with the application of the Spearman correlation analysis and Structural Equation Modelling were revealed a significant relationship among occupational stress, coping style and mental health. The positive coping style had a negative direct predictive effect on occupational stress(β=-0.499,P < 0.01) and mental health(β=-0.115,P < 0.01), negative coping styles had positive predictive effect on occupational stress(β = 0.185,P < 0.01) and mental health(β = 0.205,P < 0.01). Occupational stress had significant impact on mental health(0.416,P < 0.01), and it was played a part of mediating effect between coping style and mental health. Conclusion A high prevalence of occupational stress and worse mental health among pediatric nurses, and occupational stress and coping styles were important predictors for their mental health. In order to improve their mental health level, more attention should be paid and modifications should be made to the occupational stress and coping style for this population.

Holistic Stress Test: Stress and Coping Correlates of Age, Education, and Sex

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1344-1346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gola James Short
Keyword(s):  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Test Stress

The Holistic Stress Test has subscales reflecting sources of stress and coping styles identified in the literature. This study presents associations of demographic variables with measures of stress and coping style in univariate fashion for 191 men and 61 women.

Risk communication: The roles of message appeal and coping style

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 773-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikyoung Kim ◽  
Yoonhyeung Choi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Message Processing ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Emotional Appeals ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Message Appeals ◽  
And Coping

We examined the main effect of message appeal (emotional and logical) and coping style (monitors and blunters) and the interaction effect between the two on risk message processing outcomes. Participants were 74 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who read news stories about tornadoes, then rated their risk message processing outcomes. Results showed that emotional appeals led to a higher risk perception, probability of risk occurrence, and more accurate recognition memory than did logical appeals. Further, we found significant interaction effects between message appeal and coping style on risk perception. When message appeals were emotional, monitors perceived a higher risk and probability of risk occurrence than did blunters; however, when message appeals were logical, this difference between monitors and blunters disappeared. The findings suggest that (a) emotional appeals should be included in risk communication and (b) coping styles should be considered in effective risk communication.

The influence of family therapy on psychological stress and social adaptability of depressed patients

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Qinghua Chen ◽  
Wenqing Zhao ◽  
Qun Li ◽  
Harnof Sagi
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
College Students ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Psychological Stress ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Social Adaptability ◽  
And Coping

BACKGROUND: with the increase of study and life pressure, the number of depressed college students showed an increasing trend year by year, and the drug treatment alone could not achieve a comprehensive recovery of depression patients, so it was more necessary to pay attention to the spiritual treatment. OBJECTIVE: this research aimed to better understand the relationship between college students’ depression and life events, social support, psychological pressure, and coping style, and the influence of systematic family therapy on depression degree, psychological stress, and social adaptability of college students with depression. METHODS: in this study, 105 college students with depression were selected as the research object, and healthy college students were taken as the control group. Through questionnaire, the differences in life events, social support, psychological stress, and coping styles between the groups were compared. The correlation between the degree of depression and various variables were analyzed, and the impact path of each variable on depression was analyzed using the path analysis model. Depression patients were then divided into a conventional group treating with conventional medications and an observation group treating with systematic family interventions. Differences in Hamilton Depression Scale-17, (HAMD-17), CPSS, and Social Adaptive Functioning Evaluation (SAFE) scores were compared and analyzed between the two groups before treatment (T1), during the treatment (T2), and after treatment(T3). RESULTS: there were significant differences in scores of life events, social support, psychological stress, and coping styles between the healthy control group and the depressed patients (P <  0.05). There was an obvious correlation between different depression degrees and life events, social support, psychological stress, and coping styles (P <  0.05). Life events, social support, and psychological stress had a direct and significant impact on depression (0.250, 0.218, and 0.392; P <  0.05), and they also had an indirect and significant impact on depression through coping styles (P <  0.05). The systematic family treatment model could significantly reduce HAMD-17 and CPSS scores (P <  0.05), and significantly improve SAFE scores (P <  0.05). CONCLUSIONS: adverse life events, lack of social support, excessive psychological stress, and negative coping styles can aggravate college students’ depression. Systematic family therapy can improve the degree of depression, reduce the psychological stress, and enhance the social adaptability of college students with depression.

scholarly journals Npas4a expression in the teleost forebrain is associated with stress coping style differences in fear learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Baker ◽  
Ryan Y. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Conditioned Fear ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Contextual Fear Conditioning ◽  
Fear Learning ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Contextual Fear

AbstractLearning to anticipate potentially dangerous contexts is an adaptive behavioral response to coping with stressors. An animal’s stress coping style (e.g. proactive–reactive axis) is known to influence how it encodes salient events. However, the neural and molecular mechanisms underlying these stress coping style differences in learning are unknown. Further, while a number of neuroplasticity-related genes have been associated with alternative stress coping styles, it is unclear if these genes may bias the development of conditioned behavioral responses to stressful stimuli, and if so, which brain regions are involved. Here, we trained adult zebrafish to associate a naturally aversive olfactory cue with a given context. Next, we investigated if expression of two neural plasticity and neurotransmission-related genes (npas4a and gabbr1a) were associated with the contextual fear conditioning differences between proactive and reactive stress coping styles. Reactive zebrafish developed a stronger conditioned fear response and showed significantly higher npas4a expression in the medial and lateral zones of the dorsal telencephalon (Dm, Dl), and the supracommissural nucleus of the ventral telencephalon (Vs). Our findings suggest that the expression of activity-dependent genes like npas4a may be differentially expressed across several interconnected forebrain regions in response to fearful stimuli and promote biases in fear learning among different stress coping styles.

Exploring stress, coping, and decision-making considerations of Alzheimer’s family caregivers

Dementia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1907-1926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla J Thompson ◽  
Nancy Bridier ◽  
Lesley Leonard ◽  
Steve Morse
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Informed Decision Making ◽  
Stressful Experiences ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Disease Family

More than 15 million Americans are providing care for a family member with Alzheimer’s disease. Family caregivers are faced with highly stressful experiences, using strong coping skills, and implementing critical decisions with little or no knowledge or information and with virtually no preparation or assistance. The need for research efforts to focus on caregiver stress, coping mechanisms, and informed decision-making skills spearheaded a theoretical framework to study the potential relationships between family caregivers’ types of stress, coping skills, and their decision-making efforts. Constructs of life event stress, role strain, self-concept stress, and coping stress were examined relative to 10 priority areas of decision-making identified by the national Alzheimer’s Association. A relational non-experimental research design was utilized. Caregivers completed four Likert-scale instruments with data analyzed using descriptive statistics and rank-order correlation procedures. Findings indicated varying levels of stress, strong family self-efficacy and high levels of coping skills contribute to critical decision-making.

The sense of occupational burnout and the styles of coping with stress among workers in the helping professions

2021 ◽  
Vol 597 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Anna Kanios
Keyword(s):  
Coping Styles ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Occupational Burnout ◽  
Study Objective ◽  
And Coping

Workers of the helping professions are particularly susceptible to the occupational burnout syndrome. This stems from the very nature of helping other people who experience several social problems in their everyday life. Working in the helping and caregiving professions relies on direct contact with another human being and involves intensive stress. The burnout syndrome is a consequence of functioning under long-term stress resulting, for example, from overwork. The study objective was to diagnose the occupational burnout among workers in the helping professions and to determine the correlation between burnout and stress-coping styles. In the study, we used Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) by C. Maslach (to assess an individual’s experience of burnout) and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) by S. Norman, S. Endler, J.D.A. Parker (adapted by P. Szczepaniak, J. Strelau, K. Wrześniewski) (to assess styles of coping with stress). The empirical analyses indicated the existence of a correlation between the sense of occupational burnout among the workers studied and their styles of coping with stress.

scholarly journals Density-dependent changes in neophobia and stress-coping styles in the world's oldest farmed fish

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 181473 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Champneys ◽  
G. Castaldo ◽  
S. Consuegra ◽  
C. Garcia de Leaniz
Keyword(s):  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
High Density ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Farmed Fish ◽  
Test Arena ◽  
Novel Foods ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
In The Wild

Farmed fish are typically reared at densities much higher than those observed in the wild, but to what extent crowding results in abnormal behaviours that can impact welfare and stress coping styles is subject to debate. Neophobia (i.e. fear of the ‘new’) is thought to be adaptive under natural conditions by limiting risks, but it is potentially maladapted in captivity, where there are no predators or novel foods. We reared juvenile Nile tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus ) for six weeks at either high (50 g l −1 ) or low density (14 g l −1 ), assessed the extent of skin and eye darkening (two proxies of chronic stress), and exposed them to a novel object in an open test arena, with and without cover, to assess the effects of density on neophobia and stress coping styles. Fish reared at high density were darker, more neophobic, less aggressive, less mobile and less likely to take risks than those reared at low density, and these effects were exacerbated when no cover was available. Thus, the reactive coping style shown by fish at high density was very different from the proactive coping style shown by fish at low density. Our findings provide novel insights into the plasticity of fish behaviour and the effects of aquaculture intensification on one of the world's oldest farmed and most invasive fish, and highlight the importance of considering context. Crowding could have a positive effect on the welfare of tilapia by reducing aggressive behaviour, but it can also make fish chronically stressed and more fearful, which could make them less invasive.

Hobfoll's Strategic Approach to Coping: Reliability and Validity of the Italian Adaptation

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1130-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Laura Comunian
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Scale Data

A brief review of Hobfoll's Conservation of Resources theory is given, and the Italian adaptation of a measurement, based on this theory, the Strategic Approach to Coping Scale, is presented. The scale is useful measure to assess stress and coping conceptualized to identify coping styles. The investigation used a sample of Italian people (N = 251, 18 to 25 years of age). Confirmatory factor analysis provided support for the validity of the scale. Data on the Italian adaptation are discussed.

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