Personality Characteristics and Coping Styles of Women Working in and in Training for Nontraditional Blue Collar Jobs

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1115-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather C. Nash ◽  
Joan C. Chrisler
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Successful Work ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Work Role Transitions

43 women employed in nontraditional blue collar jobs were compared with 27 women in training for such jobs on a number of variables linked to job success and satisfaction. The purpose of the study was to determine whether women enter blue collar trades with characteristics that predispose them to successful work-role transitions or whether they adopt different coping styles and behavioral characteristics over time in order to fit into their work environments. Questionnaire packets that contained the Self-efficacy Scale, the Personal Assertion Analysis, the Ways of Coping Scale–Revised, and the Bem Sex Role Inventory were completed by 70 women. Participants in training were more androgynous and higher than expected on both problem-focused and emotion-focused coping. Possible explanations and suggestions for research are discussed.

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.

Responses Over Time of Child and Adolescent Survivors to the 2008 Wenchuan, China Earthquake

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 1147-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Han ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Yong Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
China Earthquake ◽  
And Coping

The posttraumatic psychological symptoms of 188 child and adolescent survivors were investigated at 2 stages after the 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, China, using the Mental Health Scale (Wo & Liu, 2003) and the Coping Scale (Xiao & Xu, 1996). Results showed that the survivors' mental health and coping styles were significantly different at each stage. Compared to 1 year after, 2 weeks after the earthquake, participants had more severe psychosomatic symptoms in the following items: compulsive reexperiencing, escaping, sensitive, indifferent, easily angry, suicidal, felt guilty, easily fearful, lack of interest, inefficacy, insomnia, decreased appetite, avoiding problems, fantasy, self-blaming, and rationalization. Boys scored higher than girls in the felt lonely and asking for help items in the second week, while girls scored higher than boys in the sensitive, depressed, self-blaming, and rationalization items 1 year after the earthquake. Results suggest that psychologists and social workers should focus on children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic stress and provide them with appropriate mental health interventions.

Family Needs and Coping Strategies during Illness Crisis

1991 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Ann Kolier
Keyword(s):  
Coping Styles ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Nursing Interventions ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Care Family ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
And Coping

This descriptive study was conducted to explore family needs and coping behaviors when faced with the stress of a family member’s critical illness. Family systems, crisis, and coping theories provided the conceptual frameworks for this study. A convenience sample of 30 family members of 22 critically ill patients completed the Critical Care Family Needs Inventory and the Jalowiec Coping Scale and responded to a seven-item semi-structured questionnaire. The need to know the patient’s prognosis was identified as most important on the basis of item mean scores. The top ten identified needs centered around the need for assurance, information, and proximity. Hope was the most frequently used method of coping. Seven of the top ten coping methods most frequently used were also identified by family members as being most effective. Coping styles labeled confronting and optimistic were found to be most useful and effective overall. Nursing interventions described by family members as helpful included: the provision of information, emotional support, and competence and manner of the nurse

Stress, coping, and preventing contagion during the SARS-COV2 epidemic in a sample of Mexican adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 135910532098557
Author(s):  
Rosas-Santiago Francisco Javier ◽  
Lagunes-Córdoba Roberto
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Preventive Behaviors ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Mexican Adults ◽  
And Coping

Given the lack of an effective treatment for COVID-19, it is essential to explore the psychological variables involved in the development and maintenance of preventive behaviors during the current epidemic. In this study, we analyze the predictive value of perceived stress (measured with the Perceived Stress Scale) and coping styles (measured with the Extreme Risks Coping Scale) for adhering to infection prevention behavior in a sample of 1132 Mexican adults aged between 18 and 84. A logistic regression analysis showed that Active Coping and Cognition-Focused Coping, in addition to age and being a student, proved to be predictors of adhering to SARS COV2 preventive behaviors ( R2 = 0.282). The findings from this study can be used to design strategies to promote potentially effective epidemic mitigation behaviors.

What resources matter to young people: The relationship between resources and coping style

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki McKenzie ◽  
Erica Frydenberg ◽  
Charles Poole
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Therapeutic Implications ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Resources Evaluation ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Specific Concern

AbstractA modified version of the conservation of Resources Evaluation (CORE) developed to measure adult resources to cope with stress was applied to young people. In this exploration of the relationship between the resources identified by young people and their coping styles, a sample of 172 secondary students completed the modified version of the Conservation of Resources Evaluation (CORE) and the long version of the Adolescent Coping Scale, focussed on a specific concern (ACS). The modified instrument was validated in the study, and a relationship was found between the degree to which students held the resources under consideration and the coping styles they used. Young people high in resources tended to use productive ACS strategies, while those young people with fewer resources report using fewer and more nonproductive ACS strategies. A resources approach to young people's adaptation to their circumstances has educational and therapeutic implications.

Androgyny and Coping in Men with a Managerial Orientation

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adéle May ◽  
Judora J. Spangenberg
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Master Of Business Administration ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Role Orientations ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The University

To examine the relationship between sex-role orientation and coping ability in men with a managerial orientation, a demographic questionnaire, the Zeitlin Coping Inventory and the Bem Sex-role Inventory were completed by 169 adult males undertaking the Master of Business Administration (MBA) course at the University of Stellenbosch Graduate School of Business. No significant difference was found between the global coping abilities of subjects with androgynous and masculine sex-role orientations, although both androgynous and masculine subjects showed significantly better coping abilities than subjects with feminine or undifferentiated sex-role orientations. Regarding coping styles, androgynous subjects displayed a significantly more flexible style in coping with the environment than subjects with other sex-role orientations. No significant difference was found between androgynous and masculine subjects regarding flexibility in coping with the self. The conclusion was drawn that both androgyny and masculinity could serve as effective coping resources in men with a managerial orientation.

Are Individuals in Rorschach Nonpatient Samples Truly Psychologically Healthy?

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Rosso ◽  
Andrea Camoirano ◽  
Gabriele Schiaffino
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Treatment ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Form ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Rorschach Comprehensive System ◽  
Form Quality ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Rorschach Variables

Abstract. The aim of this study was to collect a Rorschach Comprehensive System (RCS) adult nonpatient sample from Italy using more stringent exclusion criteria and controlling for psychopathology, taking into account the methodological suggestions of Ritzler and Sciara (2008) . The authors hypothesized that: (a) adult nonpatient samples are not truly psychologically healthy, in that a high number of psychopathological symptoms are experienced by participants, particularly anxiety and depression, although they have never been in psychological treatment; (b) significant differences emerge between healthy and nonhealthy groups on Rorschach variables, particularly on CS psychopathological indexes; (c) RCS psychopathological indexes are significantly correlated in the expected direction with scores on psychopathological scales. The results confirmed the hypotheses, indicating the need to collect psychologically healthy samples in addition to normative and nonpatient samples. Because differences were found in the comparison between Exner’s sample (2007) and the healthy group in this study regarding form quality and coping styles, the authors suggest that future research should investigate the construct validity of ambitent style and culturally specific influences on form quality. Moreover, the Rorschach scientific community needs to have more extensive form quality tables, enriched with objects that are currently not included.

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