scholarly journals Coping styles and aggressiveness in adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Łodygowska ◽  
Natalia Hendzelewska ◽  
Martyna Tyl
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Constructive Methods ◽  
Polish Adaptation ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Psychological Inventory

Introduction: Aggressiveness and aggression are important factors contributing to the functioning of young people and their adaptation to the environment. Despite numerous studies on aggression, there are actually no studies on methods of coping with stress among aggressive adolescents. Therefore, the aim of the presented research was to verify whether adolescents with different levels of aggressiveness/aggression reveal different tendencies in the use of styles of coping with stress.Materials and methods: We studied 135 adolescents (aged 16–18), using: 1) the Psychological Inventory of Aggression Syndrome (IPSA) by Gas – enabling identification of three main dimensions of aggression: S – self-aggression, U – internal aggression, and Z – external aggression; and 2) the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) by Endler and Parker, in the Polish adaptation by Strelau et al.Results: Based on their level of aggression, the participants were divided into three groups. Compared to their more aggressive peers, in stressful situations, adolescents scoring low on S, U, and Z significantly more frequently use task-oriented and significantly less frequently use emotion- and avoidance-oriented coping styles. There is a link between the level of aggressiveness/ aggression and the tendency to prefer emotion-focused coping and avoidance-oriented coping in the form of distraction, described as a tendency to engage in substitute activities.Conclusions: Elevated aggressiveness/aggression significantly limits the individual’s ability to use constructive methods of coping with stress.

Personality and temperamental determinants of styles of coping with stress in male and female football players

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Magdalena Naczk-Musiał
Keyword(s):  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Avoidance Coping ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Third ◽  
Polish Adaptation ◽  
Task Oriented

The aim of this paper was to determine the patterns of personality and temperament conditions for coping with stress in football players. The study examined 252 people (168 men, 84 women, the average age was 24.09 years). The athletes were representatives of the Ekstraklasa, and the I and II football Liga. They formed 3 groups: the fi rst group comprised men from the Ekstraklasa, the second - men from the II Liga and the third - women from the Ekstraklasa and the I Liga. The research made use of the following tools: NEO- FFI Personality Inventory in the Polish adaptation by Zawadzki et al. (1998), FCB - TI Temperament Questionnaire (1997), Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) by Endler and Parker, in the Polish adaptation by Strelau et al. (2007). Analysis of the results showed that agreeableness (AG), conscientiousness (CS) and perseverance (PE) proved to be important predictors of the task-oriented coping (TOC). Emotion-oriented coping (EOC) is conditioned by: neuroticism (NEU), agreeableness (AG), conscientiousness (CS) and perseverance (PE). In the case of avoidance coping (AOC), extraversion (E) and activity (A) turned out to be important predictors. However, the style of coping oriented towards engagement in substitute activities (involving in substitute activities - ISA) is conditioned by: neuroticism (NEU) and extraversion (E). Extraversion is also the predictor of dealing with stress oriented towards searching for social contacts (social contacts seeking – SCS).

Sense of efficiency and helplessness, fear and styles of coping with stress in adolescents practicing sports

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (86) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Joanna Basiaga-Pasternak
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
School Students ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Somatic Anxiety ◽  
Sense Of Efficacy ◽  
Polish Adaptation ◽  
Task Oriented

Introduction. Sense of efficacy is one of the important predictors of an athlete's efficiency [1]. The aim of the study was to show whether there is a relationship between the level of sense of efficacy vs. the sense of helplessness in girls and boys undertaking sports and level of anxiety (cognitive and somatic) as well as the dominant styles of coping with stress. Procedures. The study comprised 222 individuals - students of sport high-schools from the Małopolskie and Śląskie voivodeships (108 girls, average age =17.52 years and 114 boys, average age =18.47 years). The Intrapersonal, Interpersonal and World AttitudesQuestionnaire [Kwestionariusz Nastawień Intrapersonalnych, Interpersonalnych i Nastawień wobec Świata (KNIIŚ)] created by Ewa Wysocka was used [2] - the "Sense of efficacy" and "Sense of helplessness" scale (version for high-school students); Endler and Parker's "Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS)" in the Polish adaptation by Szczepaniak, Strelau, Wrześniewski [3] and "Reactions to Competition" by Smith, Smoll, Schutz in the Polish adaptation by Krawczyński, were also implemented [4]. Results. It has been shown in the research that respondents are dominated by a sense of efficacy over helplessness, a task-oriented style of coping with stress, and somatic fear before a start. In addition, it was found that there is a relationship between sense of efficacy and sense of helplessness with somatic anxiety that is moderated by sex, as well as a relationship between the sense of helplessness and the level of distraction, and a relationship between the sense of helplessness and the level of worrying that is also moderated by gender. Also observed was a correlation between the style of coping consisting in seeking social contacts with sense of helplessness among the surveyed girls. Conclusions. A practical postulate arises regarding strengthening sense of efficacy, especially among female competitors.

scholarly journals The Big Five personality and temperamental traits and its correlation with styles of coping with stress in the fire brigade officers

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-173
Author(s):  
Justyna Szrajda ◽  
Malwina Tudorowska ◽  
Sławomir Kujawski ◽  
Magdalena Weber-Rajek ◽  
Ewa Sygit-Kowalkowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Fire Brigade ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
High Level ◽  
Task Oriented

Abstract Selecting specific professional activities (e.g. a brigade officer) and methods for coping with difficult situations may result from personal predispositions of a given person. Personality is founded on the innate temperament. The way of dealing with stress depends on personality traits whose influence is manifested, amongst other things, in the selection of specific coping styles. The current study aim to examine the level of correlation between personality and temperamental traits with manifested coping styles. The study covered 58 volunteers – male fire brigade officers. The following tools were used: Personality Inventory, NEO-FFI, Formal Characteristics of Behaviour: Temperament Inventory – Revised Version, FCZ-KT (R) and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations, CISS. Emotion-focused coping style for stressful situations correlates with the following traits: positively, with perseveration (r=0.5115) and with emotional reactivity (r=0.4927), and negatively, with briskness (r=-0.3926) and endurance (r=-0.5408). The task-oriented coping style for stressful situations correlates positively with extraversion (r=0.3236) and conscientiousness (r=0.3088), and negatively with neuroticism (r=-0.3368) in the NEO-FFI. The emotion-focused coping style for stressful situations is positively correlated with neuroticism (NEO-FFI) (r=0.4150). In fire brigade officers, As far as personality traits were concerned, fire brigade officers scored relatively high in extraversion, conscientiousness and low in neuroticism and were likely to demonstrate the task-oriented coping style for stressful situations. Lower level of perseveration and high level of briskness and endurance were associated with emotion-focused coping style for stressful situations. Similarly, the tendency to focus on emotions experienced in stressful situations were associated with high level of neuroticism in the study group. 

Anxiety and styles of coping with occupational stress resulting from work with ‘dangerous’ prisoners in prison service officers

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Tsirigotis ◽  
Wojciech Gruszczyński ◽  
Sebastian Pęczkowski
Keyword(s):  
State Anxiety ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Regression Procedure ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
Forward Stepwise ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Task Oriented

ObjectivePrisoners categorised as ‘dangerous’ are a category of prisoners that require and/or force into using special measures of caution, protection and security. The aim of the study was to examine the intensity of anxiety (as a state and as a trait) experienced by officers working with ‘dangerous’ prisoners and styles of coping with stress they adopt.MethodsA total of 40 officers working with ‘dangerous’ prisoners (the study group, SG) and 60 officers of the security department not working with ‘dangerous’ prisoners (the reference group, RG) were studied. The intensity of anxiety was assessed applying the Polish version of ‘State-Trait Anxiety Inventory’ (STAI); styles of coping with stress were explored employing the Polish version of ‘Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations’ (CISS) and the author’s own questionnaire. Data were analysed using the mean, standard deviation, difference testing (the Mann–Whitney U test), correlation–regression procedure (Kendall’s tau, τ correlation coefficient and forward stepwise multiple regression).ResultsOfficers in the SG faced verbal and physical aggression; nevertheless, scores of officers in both the groups were within the interval of mean scores for all the studied STAI and CISS variables. Officers in the SG achieved significantly higher scores on the state-anxiety scale and the Emotion-Oriented Style (EOS), and lower scores on the Task-Oriented Style (TOS) and Social Diversion (SD). The correlation-regression procedure indicated that there were relationships between anxiety and styles of coping with stress but they differed slightly between the groups.ConclusionsOfficers in the SG feel state anxiety stronger and display a stronger preference for the EOS than officers in the RG. Officers in the RG more strongly prefer the TOS and SD. State anxiety is a variable negatively explaining the TOS in the SG, whereas anxiety as a trait is a variable explaining the EOS in both the groups. The coping styles of warders dealing with dangerous prisoners are different and may need specific psychological counselling and training programmes.

scholarly journals Styles of coping with stress and locus of control in sporting situations in a group of young female football players

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Rutkowska ◽  
Józef Bergier ◽  
Zbigniew Witkowski
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Sports Activity ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Psychological Instruments ◽  
Task Oriented

AbstractPurpose. The objective of the present study to analyse the styles of coping with stress and the locus of control (LOC) in specific sporting situations of female football players and seeking relationships between the analysed variables. Methods. The study included 50 female football players aged 16-18 years. Two psychological instruments were administered: the Polish language Questionnaire for Examining Locus of Control in Sports Activity (PKSPwS) and the Polish version of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS). Results. The mean level of the investigated LOC dimensions as well as the styles of coping with stress showed that behaviour associated with avoidance and emotions predominated over task-oriented style. However, taskoriented style was positively related to the locus of control in specific situations that occur in sport. Conclusions. The results of the study suggest that social support and educational initiatives adapted to female athletes are required. These include mental training and the psycho-pedagogical intervention of coaches, where emphasis should be placed on enhancing internal locus of control as well as the development and improvement of effective stress-coping styles.

Selected psychological factors in elite male and female wrestlers

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Rutkowska ◽  
Dariusz Gierczuk
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Task Oriented

Introduction. The study was designed to measure emotional intelligence of elite male and female wrestlers and to analyse their stress coping styles. Material and methods. A group of elite male and female wrestlers aged 18-26 years was studied. The psychological factors were analysed using two research tools: the Two-Dimensional Inventory of Emotional Intelligence (DINEMO) and the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS). Results. The study participants achieved average scores for emotional intelligence and for particular stress-coping styles. Measurements of the selected psychological factors showed that male wrestlers and female wrestlers were significantly different from each other. The female wrestlers had a lower level of intrapersonal emotional intelligence. The male wrestlers had higher scores for the task-oriented style of coping with stress while the female athletes scored higher on the avoidance style. Conclusions. Emotional intelligence and stress-coping styles are among psychological factors that influence the functioning of male and female wrestlers in sport and personal life. A need has been identified to shape and develop their emotional intelligence and adaptive stress coping styles.

scholarly journals Psychopathological symptoms, defense mechanisms and time perspectives among subjects with alcohol dependence (AD) presenting different patterns of coping with stress

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Iwanicka ◽  
Aneta Gerhant ◽  
Marcin Olajossy
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Psychopathological Symptoms ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Coping Pattern ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Coping Patterns

Background The problem of coping with stress is an important one in the context of development and persistence of alcohol dependence. In the literature to date very little attention has been paid to coping patterns construed as a configuration of specific coping styles, particularly as regards the functioning of addicted individuals. The aim of the study was to verify whether individuals with alcohol dependence characterized by different coping patterns differ with respect to the severity of psychopathological symptoms, defense mechanisms and time perspectives. Methods Participants were given a battery of psychological tests—Coping Inventory for Stresfull Situations (CISS), Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ 40), Syndrom Checklist (SCL-90) and Short Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (SZPTI-PL). The sample comprised 112 individuals with alcohol dependence, aged 20 to 63 years old, the average age was 37.86; 78 percent were men. There were identified three sub-groups of individuals characterized by a distinctive patterns of coping with stress —“emotional-avoidant”, “task oriented” and a “mixed one”. Results Individuals with the predominant emotional-avoidant coping pattern are characterized by significantly higher severity of psychopathological symptoms, less mature defense mechanisms and past time perspectives. Subjects reliant on task-oriented coping pattern were characterized by the highest level of adaptation and the most constructive way of functioning in the face of difficulties. Conclusion It is worth regarding the examination of patterns of coping as an indispensable element of collecting medical history from alcohol dependent individuals.

scholarly journals Emotional intelligence and coping with stress in foster parents

Family Forum ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 165-190
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Maria Rogowska ◽  
Barbara Zmaczyńska-Witek ◽  
Ilona Łatka ◽  
Zofia Kardasz
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Biological Parents ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Task Oriented

Although much research on emotional intelligence (EI) and coping with stress has been performed in recent years, little is known about these dimensions of individual differences in both foster and biological parents. The main purpose of this study is to examine emotional intelligence and coping styles in foster parents in comparison to biological parents. The study included 124 individual participants aged between 30 and 64 years old (M = 45.18, SD = 8.72), including foster parents (n = 63, 50.81%) and biological parents (n = 61, 49.19%). The cross-sectional survey study was conducted using the Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS). In comparison to biological parents, foster parents demonstrated significantly higher levels of emotional intelligence (EI), more frequently used task-oriented coping styles, and less often pursued emotional and avoidant coping strategies to deal with stress. EI was positively correlated with task-oriented coping and negatively so with emotional coping. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that EI was a strong predictor of task-oriented coping. Training focused on the enhancement of both EI and coping with stress should be considered as an effective way to improve parents’ competence.

Sense of coherence and resilience for coping with stress in the group of juveniles referred to probation centres by family courts

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-159
Author(s):  
Karol Konaszewski ◽  
Łukasz Kwadrans
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
Motivational Aspect

The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between the sense of coherence and resilience and the styles of stress coping and to determine which of the studied variables (comprehensibility; manageability; meaningfulness; optimistic attitude and energy; perseverance and determination in action; sense of humour and openness to new experiences; personal competences and tolerance of negative affect) was more important in predicting coping styles with stressful situations in the group of juveniles who had been referred to probation centres. Participants in this study were 210 juveniles from probation centres. The following research tools were used in the research: A. Antonovsky’s Orientation to Life Questionnaire, Resilience Scale by N. Ogińska-Bulik and Z. Juczyński, and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations by N. S. Enlder and J. D. A. Parker. The research results show that sense of coherence and resilience play a predictive function for the style which focuses on the task, emotions, avoidance and strategy related to engaging in substitute activities and seeking contact with people. Building (by probation officers) the sense of coherence and resilience among juveniles involves better understanding of the surrounding world and the stimuli which come from it, understanding internal signals and increasing the sense of manageability and comprehensibility, enhancing the ability to use the own and the environmental resources as well as working on the sense of meaningfulness, i.e. the motivational aspect of functioning. Supporting components of resilience (optimistic attitude and energy; perseverance and determination in action; sense of humour and openness to new experiences; personal competences and tolerance of negative affect) through psychoeducational activities (in probation centres) enables better understanding of the own self and, consequently, using stress management strategies aimed at finding a positive solution to a particular situation.

scholarly journals Prevalence of dental caries in students with different levels of anxiety

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (23) ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
S. N. Razumova ◽  
N. B. Karabushchenko ◽  
O. M. Bait Said ◽  
G. M. Mkhoyan ◽  
G. A. Наrutyunyan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Dental Caries ◽  
Young People ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Different Levels

Dental incidence of caries has a significant impact on human health and currently affects the bulk of the world's population, despite numerous attempts to reduce it. One of the groups at risk of developing this disease is young people (students) who experience anxiety throughout the entire learning process.

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