Employee adjustment to stress: The role of coping resources, situational factors, and coping responses

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah J. Terry ◽  
Linda Tonge ◽  
Victor J. Callan
Keyword(s):  
Coping Resources ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
And Coping

PTSD and Coping Resources among Survivors of a Kamikaze Attack: The Role of Character Strength

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1163-1171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Chara ◽  
Kathleen A. Chara
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Spearman Rank Order Correlation ◽  
Character Strength ◽  
Okinawa Island ◽  
And Coping

33 survivors of the U.S.S. Emmons ( M age = 79.7 yr., SD = 2.3), which was sunk by kamikaze attacks during World War II, were given an adapted form of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist–Civilian and a set of questions regarding 8 coping resources they may have used during the war. Participants were categorized into three groups: those who served on the Emmons at any given time during World War II (Any Service), those who experienced combat while aboard the Emmons or another ship during World War II (Any Combat), and those who were serving on board the Emmons when it was sunk during the battle for Okinawa island (Okinawa). Analyses using a one-tailed Spearman rank-order correlation indicated that scores on only one coping resource, Character Strength, were significantly correlated with lower symptoms of PTSD for all three groups (Any Service: rs = −.46, p < .01; Any Combat: rs = −.47, p < .01; Okinawa: rs = −.45, p < .05). The findings suggest that, for the survivors of the Emmons, psychological qualities, not social influences, were associated with a lower risk for developing PTSD.

scholarly journals Income Inequality and Depression: The Role of Social Comparisons and Coping Resources

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioana van Deurzen ◽  
Erik van Ingen ◽  
Wim J. H. van Oorschot
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
And Coping

Coping Capacity Among Women with Abusive Partners

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula S. Nurius ◽  
Jacqueline Furrey ◽  
Lucy Berliner
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
Coping Capacity ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
Personal Threat ◽  
Abusive Partners ◽  
And Coping

Coping capacity, although increasingly implicated as a mediating force in how individuals respond to personal threat, is an underrecognized factor in work with women of abusive partners. To explore the utility of coping capacity as a multivariable set to guide intervention with women of abusive partners, findings are reported comparing four groups of women: those whose partners do not engage in abuse, are abusive toward them, are sex offenders of children for whom the woman is a parent, or are offenders of children for whom the woman is not a parent. Three variable sets were included: vulnerability factors that may negatively influence appraisals of threat and ability to cope with abuse; coping responses that include cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions to the abuse; and coping resources expected to mediate effects of vulnerability factors and to influence the mobilization (of lack thereof) of coping responses. There were significant differences in coping capacity profiles across the four groups. These appeared to be a continuum of coping capacity, with women who were most directly threatened showing the lowest and women who were least directly threatened showing the highest levels of coping capacity. In order from the lowest to the highest levels of coping capacity were (1) battered women, (2) women whose partners are offenders against their children, (3) women whose partners are offenders against children of whom they are not the parent, and (4) control group women. The paper ends with a conceptual interpretation of the mediating functions of coping resources and implications for intervention and further study.

scholarly journals The Role of Spirituality in Pain, Function, and Coping in Individuals with Chronic Pain

Pain Medicine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Ferreira-Valente ◽  
Cátia Damião ◽  
José Pais-Ribeiro ◽  
Mark P Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Coping ◽  
Task Persistence ◽  
Psychological Function ◽  
Pain Experience ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
Positive Perspective ◽  
And Function ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Objective Chronic pain is a multidimensional experience associated with psychosocial (e.g., pain-related beliefs and pain coping responses) and spiritual factors. Spirituality is a universal aspect of the human experience that has been hypothesized to impact pain experience via its effects on pain, physical/psychological function, resilience and pain-related beliefs, and pain coping responses. However, research evaluating the associations between measures of spirituality and measures of pain and function in individuals with chronic pain is limited. This study seeks to address this limitation. Methods Participants were 62 Portuguese adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Participants completed measures of spirituality, pain intensity, physical and psychological function, and pain coping responses. Results Spirituality as hope and a positive perspective toward life was positively and moderately associated with better psychological function and coping responses of ignoring pain sensations and coping self-statements. Spirituality as a search for meaning and sense of purpose was positively and moderately associated with the coping response of task persistence. Conclusions These findings suggest the possibility that spirituality may be a useful resource for facilitating psychological adjustment, potentially promoting the use of some adaptive pain coping responses.

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