scholarly journals Spirituality and Self-Efficacy in Caregivers of Patients with Neurodegenerative Disorders: An Overview of Spiritual Coping Styles

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan González-Rivera ◽  
Adam Rosario-Rodríguez

The objective of this research was to assess the effect of spirituality and self-efficacy in the mental health of caregivers of patients with neurodegenerative disorders. Four styles of spiritual coping were examined to identify which of them can function as protective or risk factors for caregivers of patients with neurodegenerative disorders. Interviews were conducted face-to-face to 116 caregivers of patients diagnosed with some type of neurodegenerative disorder. The results showed that caregivers with a selfless spiritual coping style exhibit significantly higher depression, stress, and perceived overload than those with a collaborative style. No statistically significant differences were found between the means of the other styles of spiritual coping. Simultaneously, it was found that the selfless spiritual coping style is a risk factor for overload, depression, and stress. The study is a first step in understanding how spirituality interacts with self-efficacy to protect the mental health of caregivers of dementia patients in Puerto Rico. Our results theoretically and empirically support the functional compatibility of both psychological resources.

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Zhe Liu ◽  
Malizia King

BACKGROUND: For family caregivers, sudden stroke events and heavy caring works are stressful events. At present, controversies about the factors affecting caregivers’ stress response and their correlation with coping styles still exist. OBJECTIVE: To explore the influencing factors and coping styles of mental health stress responses of stroke caregivers and promote caregivers to adopt positive coping styles for diseases and caring works. METHODS: The convenience sampling method is used to select stroke caregivers as the research objects. The general information questionnaires, Relative Stress Scale (RSS), General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES), Social Support Rate Scale (SSRS), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), and Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ) are utilized for investigation. RESULTS: 205 valid questionnaires are returned. Analysis suggests that the influential factors of mental health stress responses of stroke caregivers include the course of the disease, the impact of the disease on economic conditions, obligation to take care of other family members, understanding of stroke-associated diseases, and whether the patient is at risk. Social support and self-efficacy are negatively correlated with stress responses, while negative coping style is significantly positively correlated with stress responses. CONCLUSIONS: By increasing social support and self-efficacy, medical workers can guide stroke caregivers to take positive coping styles, thereby reducing their mental health stress responses.


Medicina ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (8) ◽  
pp. 404
Author(s):  
Akihiko Katayama ◽  
Kanae Kanda ◽  
Ayako Hase ◽  
Nobuyuki Miyatake

Background and objectives: The purpose of this study is to clarify the effects on the mental health of face-to-face exercise performed by an instructor (lesson-style Group: Group L) and exercise using machines (program-style Group: Group P) by randomized control trial. Materials and Methods: Among 120 subjects, 117 subjects were allocated to two groups with stratified randomization by sex (Group P: 58 subjects; Group L: 59 subjects). A 60-min health exercise class was held once per week for 12 consecutive weeks. The measurement items were mental health as a primary evaluation item and self-efficacy as a secondary evaluation item. Physical fitness was also measured using a new physical fitness test used in Japan. The 12-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-12) was used to measure mental health and the general self-efficacy scale (GSES) was used to measure self-efficacy. Results: After the intervention, 102 subjects were analyzed. The changes in mental health evaluated by GHQ-12 scores were significantly lower in Group L −0.7 (95% CI, −1.2 to −0.3) than Group P −0.1 (95% CI, −0.4 to 0.2) (p = 0.03). The changes in self-efficacy evaluated by GSES scores were significantly higher in Group P 5.3 (95% CI, 3.1 to 7.5) than Group L 1.3 (95% CI, −0.4 to 3.1) (p < 0.01). Conclusions: Compared with program exercises mainly using machines, face-to-face exercises performed by instructors improved mental health.


2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 949-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changxiu Shi ◽  
Xiaojun Zhao

We examined the influence of college students' coping styles on perceived self-efficacy, through the mediating effect of general self-efficacy, in managing inferiority. A sample of 206 college students completed a Coping Style Questionnaire, the Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale of Chinese college students, and a general self-efficacy scale. The results showed the following: (a) there were significant correlations among the problem solving, self-blame, and fantasy coping styles, and general self-efficacy and perceived self-efficacy in managing inferiority; (b) the problem solving and self-blame coping styles indirectly predicted perceived self-efficacy in managing inferiority by general self-efficacy, and general self-efficacy played a partial mediating role between the problem solving and self-blame coping styles and perceived self-efficacy in managing inferiority; and (c) gender played a moderating role between coping style and perceived self-efficacy in managing inferiority. The results are important for counseling to enhance regulatory emotional self-efficacy.


2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juleen Buser

This study investigated the relationship between stress, spiritual coping, and bulimic symptoms in college students (N = 605). Participants who felt punished by God/Higher Power during difficult times reported more symptoms. This spiritual coping strategy also partly mediated the link between stress and bulimic symptoms; the link was partly explained by a coping style that involved beliefs about punishment by God/Higher Power. These findings have implications for mental health counseling in terms of addressing spiritual coping strategies with clients who identify as having faith beliefs and who struggle with bulimic symptoms.


2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 6591-6594
Author(s):  
Shu Zhu ◽  
Min Xu

This study was to investigate the effect of self-efficacy on coping styles and the regulatory role of mental healt in the disaster nursing education of nursing undergraduates to strengthen the education of mental healt in them and improve their abilities to cope with disaster relief. 403 nursing undergraduates who had passed the assessment of knowledge and skills related to disaster relief were chosen to receive a questionnaire survey. GSES, CSQ and PHI were applied for the correlation analysis and multiple hierarchical regression analysis. The results showed that self-efficacy has a significantly positive prediction effect on the mature coping style. In the prediction of coping styles based on self-efficacy, SOM, ANX and HMA played a regulatory role. It is concluded that students with higher self-efficacy were inclined to adopt the mature coping style, and the somatotization symptom and emotional state of mental healt can play a significant regulation role in the influence of self-efficacy on coping styles.


2011 ◽  
Vol 217-218 ◽  
pp. 1879-1885
Author(s):  
Jian Qiang Wang

Coping problem is closely related to mental adapt and mental health. Coping style is an important mediator in physical normal college students’ mental stress, which affects students’ mental health. Based on a lot of documents, specialist interviews and questionnaire physical normal college students’ coping style features. Discuss physical normal college students’ methods of coping style in problem of life and study.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Zhengxi ◽  
Zhang Xiangxin ◽  
Qiao Zhiming

Abstract [Purpose]: To understand the mental health level (HAMA) and trait coping style (TCSQ) of the Chinese aid Guyana medical team members (CAGMTM) under the new coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, in order to take effective measures to improve the CAGMTM Mental health provides a theoretical basis. [Method]: From October 2020 to March 2021, the team members have worked and lived in Guyana for 6 months. The mental health level (Hamilton Anxiety Scale, HAMA) and trait coping styles were investigated for 16 team members who aided Guyana. [Results]: The HAMA score of the CAGMTM was (14.75±5.12); 14 doctors had a score of (15.57+6.01); 2 chefs had a score of (17.5+7.78). The results of multivariate regression analysis showed that among the CAGMTM. Whether there are team members in isolation (t=3.383, p<0.05), and whether any medical staff in the hospital where the CAGMTM are located have tested positive for COVID-19 (t=-2.831, p<0.05) are important factors affecting the mental health of the team members during the epidemic. factor. The score of active coping in the coping style is (29.38±6.28) points, which is lower than the Chinese conventional model (t=-0.392, p<0.05); the negative coping score is (30.37±5.05) points, which is higher than the Chinese conventional model (t=4.908) , p<0.05); the HAMA score of the CAGMTM in the COVID-19 epidemic was negatively correlated with the positive response in TCSQ (r=-0.654, p<0.05); the HAMA score was positively correlated with the negative response in TCSQ (r=0.654) ,p<0.05). [Conclusion]: The mental health level of the CAGMTM under the COVID-19 epidemic is closely related to their idiosyncratic coping styles. For foreign aid medical team members working in countries with severe epidemics, attention should be paid to the mental health of foreign aid medical team members, timely intervention should be given, and psychological counseling should be carried out regularly, so that the aid team members can work and live better.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shasha Song ◽  
Xin Yang ◽  
Hua Yang ◽  
Ping Zhou ◽  
Hui Ma ◽  
...  

BackgroundPsychological resilience may reduce the impact of psychological distress to some extent. We aimed to investigate the mental health status of the public during the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and explore the level and related factors of anxiety and depression.MethodsFrom February 8 to March 9, 2020, 3,180 public completed the Zung’s Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) for anxiety, Zung’s Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) for depression, the Connor–Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) for psychological resilience, and the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ) for the attitudes and coping styles.ResultsThe number of people with depressive symptoms (SDS &gt; 53) was 1,303 (the rate was 41.0%). The number of people with anxiety symptoms (SAS &gt; 50) was 1,184 (the rate was 37.2%). The depressed group and anxiety group had less education, more unmarried and younger age, as well as had significant different in SDS total score (P &lt; 0.001), SAS total score (P &lt; 0.001), CD-RISC total score (P &lt; 0.001), and SCSQ score (P &lt; 0.001). The binary logistic regression showed that female (B = -0.261, P = 0.026), strength (B = -0.079, P = 0.000), and the subscales of active coping style in SCSQ (B = -0.983, P = 0.000) remained protective factors and passive coping style (B = 0.293, P = 0.003) and higher SAS score (B = 0.175, P = 0.000) were risk factors for depression. Optimism (B = -0.041, P = 0.015) in CD-RISC was a protective factor, and passive coping styles (B = 0.483, P = 0.000) and higher SDS score (B = 0.134, P = 0.000) were risk factors for anxiety.LimitationsThis study adopted a cross-sectional design and used self-report questionnaires.ConclusionThe mental health of the public, especially females, the younger and less educational populations, and unmarried individuals, should be given more attention. Individuals with high level of mental resilience and active coping styles would have lower levels of anxiety and depression during the outbreak of COVID-19.


2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
H.W. Revollo ◽  
A. Qureshi

Acculturative stress is increasingly understood to mediate the relationship between immigration and mental health. The bullk of research in this area, however, has not addressed psychological factors that affect the degree to which the migratory process is experienced as stressful nor what sorts of strategies are used to manage stressors related to migration. The appraisal of a situation as stressful is related to the material, social and psychological resources. Coping style can mediate the psychological impact of the stressor. It would appear that the relationship between stress and coping is complex and multifaceted, and not amenable to a simple path analysis. To better understand how the migratory experience is related to mental health requires elucidating the relationship between the objective event, how it is appraised, and the coping response used. A further confounding issue is that the bulk of theorizing and instrumentation in coping and stress research is predicated on a Euro-American paradigm, and thus not necessarily appropriate for use with other cultures. In addition, it would appear that coping style not only mediates the relationship between stress and psychopathology, but is also related to the appraisal process. This paper will provide a critical analysis of conceptual and measurement issues related to stress, appraisal, and coping as applied to the migratory experience. The paper will conclude with an outline a research study currently underway that may provide insight into some of these issues.


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