Resiliency, positive and negative coping strategies with stress of cancer disease

The aim of this research is to assess the coping strategies of physically challenged children. The area of assessment included in physical, emotional and social problems related to their physical disability. Descriptive research design was selected to study the physical, emotional and social problems and its coping strategies of physically challenged children. Purposive sampling technique used for 50 samples of Physically challenged children between the age group of 10-15 years who were educated at the special school in Mangalore. It was reached from the result of the findings that physically challenged children are using negative coping mechanism for social problems related to their physical disability whereas physical and emotional problems related to physical disability most of them are using positive coping mechanism.

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Mentor–mentee relationships as anchors for pre service teachers’ coping on professional placement

International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education ◽

10.1108/ijmce-04-2019-0052 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 71-86

Author(s):

Anat Wilson ◽

Minh Huynh

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Coping Styles ◽

Teaching Profession ◽

Initial Teacher Education ◽

Content Type ◽

Mentoring Relationship ◽

Key Factor ◽

Coping Scale ◽

Negative Coping

Purpose Mentor–mentee relationships are important for individual wellbeing, mental health, professional agency and confidence. In the context of an initial teacher education (ITE) programme, these relationships become a key factor. Pre-service teachers’ capacity to cope on a professional placement is closely linked to the quality of the mentoring relationship. The purpose of this paper is to identify the negative coping strategies used by pre-service teachers who struggle to cope in a school placement in Melbourne, Australia, highlighting the importance of providing quality mentorship. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods approach was used for the analysis of pre-service teachers’ coping on a teaching practicum and to identify common related beliefs. A total of 177 pre-service teachers, who have completed at least one supervised practicum participated in this study. The Coping Scale for Adults second edition (CSA-2) was administered alongside an open-ended questionnaire to identify frequently used coping styles and associated thoughts and beliefs. Findings The results show that pre-service teachers who favour non-productive coping strategies were more likely to express feelings of loneliness, pointed at poor communication with their mentor and described thoughts about leaving the teaching profession. Originality/value Using the Coping Scale for Adults in the context of practicum provides an insight into individual experiences. The implications of mentor–mentee relationships for individuals’ coping are highlighted. initial teacher education programs and schools have significant roles in supporting mentor–mentee relationships and practical supportive interventions are offered.

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THE MEDIATING ROLES OF HEALTH LOCUS OF CONTROL AND COPING ON THE PAIN-DEPRESSION PATHWAY

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igz038.579 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S162-S162

Author(s):

Kyrsten Costlow ◽

Patricia A Parmelee ◽

Tina Harralson

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Locus Of Control ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Health Locus Of Control ◽

Self Report ◽

Osteoarthritis Of The Knee ◽

Osteoarthritis Pain ◽

Serial Mediation ◽

Negative Coping ◽

And Coping

Abstract The literature on health locus of control (HLC) suggests that individuals who believe that their health is internally determined are more likely to use active coping strategies than those who believe their health is determined by chance or powerful others (Brosschot, Gebhardt, & Godaert, 1994; Gibson & Helme, 2000). Coping strategies (Klapow et al., 1995) and HLC (Campbell, Hope, & Dunn, 2017) have been found to influence the relation between chronic pain and depression. We hypothesized that the relation between osteoarthritis pain and depression would be serially mediated by HLC and coping. Self-report measures of osteoarthritis pain (Meenan, Mason, Anderson, Guccione, & Kazis, 1992; Parmelee, Katz, & Lawton), HLC (Wallston, Wallston, & DeVellis, 1978), coping strategies (Felton & Revenson, 1984; Rosenstiel & Keefe, 1983), and depression (Radloff, 1977) were examined in 367 older adults with osteoarthritis of the knee. Hayes’ (2013) PROCESS macro was used to test the hypothesized serial multiple mediation for three subscales of HLC: internality (IHLC), chance (CHLC), and powerful others (PHLC). After controlling for age, the hypothesized serial mediation was statistically significant for IHLC and CHLC but not PHLC. More specifically, osteoarthritis pain significantly increased CHLC, which increased negative coping and depression in turn. Osteoarthritis pain significantly decreased IHLC, which was associated with both positive and negative coping strategies in a complex serial mediation. These findings suggest that interventions targeting HLC and/or coping strategies may be able to alter the pain-depression pathway for older adults with chronic osteoarthritis pain. (Supported by R01-MH51800, P. Parmelee, PI).

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Coping among adolescents with long-term health conditions: a mixed-methods study

British Journal of Nursing ◽

10.12968/bjon.2020.29.13.762 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (13) ◽

pp. 762-769

Author(s):

Nabeel Al-Yateem ◽

Muhammad Arsyad Subu ◽

Arwa Al-Shujairi ◽

Intima Alrimawi ◽

Hend Mohd Ali ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

School Health ◽

Stressful Events ◽

Health Conditions ◽

Mixed Methods Design ◽

Care Environment ◽

Psychological Comorbidities ◽

Negative Coping

Background: Adolescents with long-term health conditions may be at risk of developing psychological comorbidities and adopting ineffective coping mechanisms if they are not adequately supported at home or school. Aim: To understand the strategies adolescents use when dealing with challenging health situations, and gain an in-depth understanding of the characteristics of their preferred care environment if they have unexpected health crises. Design: The study used a concurrent mixed-methods design, with data gathered between January and May 2019. Descriptive and non-parametric tests were used to analyse quantitative and qualitative data. Results: ‘Problem-focused disengagement’ was the most-often used coping strategy. The second and third most common strategies were ‘problem-focused engagement’ and ‘emotion-focused engagement’. Finally, girls tended to adopt more negative coping strategies than boys. The analysis revealed that most adolescents preferred home over school as the care environment because these caring agents were close and available, knew how to care for them and had the resources to provide or access care, and listened and understood them. Conclusion: Adolescents adopted disengagement and negative coping strategies early in their attempts to cope with stressful events before adopting more positive strategies. This is alarming, especially as school health services are not sufficiently supportive of adolescents at times of stress and illness. Adolescents often perceive school providers as unavailable and lacking knowledge about their health needs.

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The Association between self-stigma and coping strategies in depressive disorder–a cross-sectional study

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.717 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. S530-S530

Author(s):

M. Holubova ◽

J. Prasko

Keyword(s):

Depressive Disorder ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Depressive Disorders ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

The Self ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Positive Coping ◽

Negative Coping

BackgroundSelf-stigma is a maladaptive psychosocial phenomenon that may disturb many areas of patient's life. In connection with maladaptive coping strategies should make mental health recovery more difficult. Specific coping strategies may be connected with the self-stigma and also with the severity of the disorder. The objective of the study was to explore the relationship between coping strategies, the severity of the disorder and self-stigma in outpatients with depressive disorder.MethodEighty-one outpatients, who met ICD-10 criteria for depressive disorders, were enrolled in the cross-sectional study. Data on sociodemographic and clinical variables were recorded. All probands completed standardized measurements: The Stress Coping Style Questionnaire (SVF-78), the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (ISMI), and the Clinical Global Impression (CGI).ResultsThe patients with depression overuse negative coping strategies, especially escape tendency and resignation. Using of positive coping is in average level. Coping strategies are significantly associated with the self-stigma. Negative coping (especially resignation and self-accusation) increase the self-stigma, using of positive coping (primarily underestimation, reaction control, and positive self-instruction) have a positive impact to decreased self-stigma. The level of self-stigma correlated positively with total symptom severity score.ConclusionsThe present study revealed the important association between coping strategies and self-stigma in outpatients with depressive disorders. Decreasing the use of negative strategies, and strengthening the use of positive coping may have a positive impact to self-stigma reduction.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Coping strategies and distress reduction in psychological well-being? A structural equation modelling analysis using a national population sample

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences ◽

10.1017/s2045796015000505 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 370-383 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

X. Meng ◽

C. D'Arcy

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Promotion ◽

General Population ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental Health Promotion ◽

Psychiatric Disease ◽

Positive Coping ◽

Negative Coping

Background.Little is understood about of the role of coping strategies in psychological well-being (PWB) and distress for the general population and different physical and psychiatric disease groups. A thorough examination of these relationships may provide evidence for the implementation of public mental health promotion and psychiatric disease prevention strategies aimed at improving the use of positive coping approaches or addressing the causes and maintainers of distress. The present study using a structural equation modelling (SEM) approach and nationally representative data on the Canadian population investigates the relationships among PWB, distress and coping strategies and identifies major factors related to PWB for both the general population and diverse-specific disease groups.Methods.Data examined were from the Canadian Community Health Survey of Mental Health and Well-being (CCHS 1.2), a large national survey (n = 36 984). We applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis and SEM to build structural relationships among PWB, distress and coping strategies in the general population.Results.Both SEM measurement and structure models provided a good fit. Distress was positively related to negative coping and negatively related to positive coping. Positive coping indicated a higher level of PWB, whereas negative coping was associated with a lower level of PWB. PWB was negatively related to distress. These same relationships were also found in the population subgroups. For the population with diseases (both physical and psychiatric diseases, except agoraphobia), distress was the more important factor determining subjective PWB than the person's coping strategies, whereas, negative coping had a major impact on distress in the general population. Strengths and limitations were also discussed.Conclusions.Our findings have practical implications for public psychiatric disease intervention and mental health promotion. As previously noted positive/adaptive coping increased the level of PWB, whereas negative/maladaptive coping was positively related to distress and negatively related to PWB. Distress decreased the level of PWB. Our findings identified major correlates of PWB in both the general population and population subgroups. Our results provide evidence for the differential use of intervention tactics among different target audiences. In order to improve the mental health of the general population public mental health promotion should focus on strategies that reduce negative coping at a population level, whereas clinicians treating individual clients should make the reduction of distress their primary target to maintain or improve patients’ PWB.

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Life Challenges and Mental Health Issues of Single Mothers: A Systematic Examination

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.b1007.0982s1019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2S10) ◽

pp. 48-52

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Single Mothers ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Health Problems ◽

Health Issues ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Systematic Analysis ◽

Life Challenges ◽

Negative Coping

As the number of single mothers worldwide increases, their challenges and health issues were discussed in the previous literature. This systematic analysis aims to reveal mental health problems of single-mothers and discuss the adversities faced by them. Financial hardship was seemingly the most significant problem among the low incomes, unemployed and poor single mothers, which showed that poverty and mental health problems were inextricably related. Several factors were found in this study, which has led the single mothers to poverty, such as lowincome employment, large numbers of self-employment, unemployed, low education level, lack of adequate skills and age factor. In addition to that, numerous lines of research have indicated that low social support from the surrounding area was the factor of the distress of single mothers. Previous studies showed that single mothers use negative coping strategies, for example, consuming drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, and antidepressants to alleviate the effects of stressful life. These coping strategies were found to be harmful to their physical and mental health. Therefore, suggestions and recommendations are provided to improve the lives of single mothers and their children to accomplish quality of life.

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Stress Coping Strategies among College Students: A Case in the College of Education, Eritrea Institute of Technology

Open Science Journal ◽

10.23954/osj.v3i3.1689 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dawit Yikealo ◽

Werede Tareke

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

College Of Education ◽

Stress Coping ◽

Education Students ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

Stress Coping Strategies ◽

Negative Coping ◽

Institute Of Technology ◽

Test Result

The study was intended to investigate the stress coping strategies among College of Education (CoE) students in Eritrea Institute of Technology, Mainichi. To investigate the students’ stress coping strategies, descriptive research was carried out among a total of 123 students participants who were randomly drawn from the CoE took part in the study. A self-developed College Students Coping Strategies Scale which entails 15 items has been utilized. The results of the study presented that the students were found to use more positive stress coping strategies than the negative ones. An independent-sample t-test result indicated there is no statistically significant relationship between gender and both positive and negative stress coping strategies. The study is expected to have an impact on broadening the horizon of knowledge and understanding of stress coping strategies practiced by the college of education students. The study will support the college students to identify the positive and negative coping strategies, thereby stick to the healthy ones.

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Styles of coping with stress presented by female and male students of Physical Education during the pandemic

International Journal of Physical Education Fitness and Sports ◽

10.34256/ijpefs2049 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 85-90

Author(s):

Aleksandra Samełko ◽

Szczypińska M ◽

Guszkowska M

Keyword(s):

Physical Education ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Male Students ◽

Coping With Stress ◽

Difficult Situation ◽

Common Strategy ◽

Negative Coping ◽

Difficult Situations

The aim of the study was to determine the intensity of coping strategies used by students of Physical Education during a pandemic. Women and men were compared in terms of strategies considered positive and negative. The study used the psychological tool: Inventory for the Measurement of Coping with Stress. The participants were students of Physical Education (aged 25.69 ± 5.908); 26 women, 28 men. Results: the examined women show a higher intensity of both positive and negative coping strategies. The most common strategy among students is positive re-evaluation. Conclusions: The surveyed students experiencing difficult situations choose rather positive than negative strategies of coping with the problem. Women showing a higher level of coping strategies may be more aware of a difficult situation or experience a pandemic more intensely in relation to men.

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