Search results for "Coping"
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The assessment of surgery-related coping: The coping with surgical stress scale (COSS)
2000
Abstract Surgery can be regarded as a major stressor for any patient. High preoperative emotional arousal may negatively influence adjustment during surgery as well as the postoperative recovery rate. Consequently, the strategies individuals employ for coping with this stress are of prime importance for the quality of their adaptation. This paper reports the construction and empirical assessment of a new instrument for measuring strategies employed to cope with surgical stress. Factor analysis of this instrument, the Coping with Surgical Stress Scale (COSS), yielded five factors: Rumination, Optimism and Trust, Turning to Social and Religious Resources, Threat Avoidance, and Information See…
Employment pathways and work-related issues in head and neck cancer survivors
2014
Background In this exploratory study, employment and psychological factors were investigated in head and neck cancer survivors with survivorship of ≥2 years. Methods Fifty-five head and neck cancer survivors ≤60 years old completed a survey including subscales from the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) instrument, the Miller Behavioral Style Scale, the General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), and the Hornheider–Fragebogen short version (HFB) measuring the need for psychological interventions. Exploratory analyses of associations to the employment status were performed. Results The rate of employed patients dropped from three-fourths of …
Sense of coherence as a mediator between hostility and health
2002
Abstract Objective: We proposed and tested a model in which low sense of coherence (SOC) was hypothesized to underlie the association between hostility and health problems. Methods: Structural equation modeling was based on cross-lagged 7-year follow-up data, relating to five measurement points in 433 female municipal employees. Results: The mediated model fitted well with the data. After adjustment for baseline characteristics, hostility was associated with increased risk of health problems, as indicated by records of sickness absences and poor self-rated health. Incorporating SOC into the model attenuated this association by 33–50%, depending on the indicator of health. The mediated effec…
Avoidant coping, verbal-autonomic response dissociation and pain tolerance
2006
Higher autonomic reactivity relative to self-reported discomfort, often found in repressors and avoidant copers might be associated with a diminished perception of bodily symptoms. This study aimed at relating such so-called verbal-autonomic response dissociation to pain tolerance. Eighty-five volunteers underwent a public speaking task and a cold pressor test. Heart rate and negative affect in response to the speech, and pain ratings and facial muscle responses for the cold pressor were obtained. A dissociation score was calculated for each individual in response to speech, thereby subtracting standardized changes in negative affect from standardized changes in heart rate. Response dissoci…
Prevalencia de los trastornos del espectro autista: revisión de datos
2016
Published data on the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders point to a significant increase in this indicator. This increase is being studied in numerous publications of analysis, meta-analysis and systematic reviews. The prevalence indicates the proportion of people who suffer at a given time or are diagnosed with a disease. The consequences of the increasing prevalence are relevant from the point of health, social and educational, but especially relevant when as is the case, the cause of the disorder is unknown. It is in this sense that the prevalence study gains importance in order to delimit various circumstances that may give clues to the possible cause or causes that generate disord…
A Group Intervention to Promote Resilience in Nursing Professionals: A Randomised Controlled Trial
2022
In this study, a new group intervention program to foster resilience in nursing professionals was tested for efficacy. In total, 72 nurses were recruited and randomised to either an intervention condition or to a wait list control condition. The study had a pre-test, post-test, follow-up design. The eight-week program targeted six resilience factors: cognitive flexibility, coping, self-efficacy, self-esteem, self-care, and mindfulness. Compared to the control group, the intervention group reported a significant improvement in the primary outcome mental health (measured with the General Health Questionnaire) from pre-test (M = 20.79; SD = 9.85) to post-test (M = 15.81; SD = 7.13) with an est…
Motivation for participation in rehab therapy and stress-coping styles in alcohol dependent women and men = Motywacja do udziału w terapii i style ra…
2020
Wprowadzenie: Przedstawiono przegląd literatury z zakresu stylów radzenia sobie ze stresem i motywacji do uczestnictwa w terapii w grupie kobiet i mężczyzn uzależnionych od alkoholu. Wywnioskowano, że dotychczasowe dane empirycznie pozwalają na zaobserwowanie zróżnicowania ze względu na płeć, ale nie umożliwiają stworzenia jednoznacznych modeli w zakresie motywacji i radzenia sobie ze stresem przez kobiety i mężczyzn. Materiał i metody: W badaniu wzięło udział 90 ochotników (33 K i 57 M) w wieku od 22 do 70 lat (M = 43,70; SD = 11,26), uczęszczających na terapię uzależnień (M = 7,97 miesięcy; SD = 5,76) do ośrodka leczenia uzależnień na Górnym Śląsku. Respondenci wypełnili metryczkę, Kwesti…
‘Cos I’m a Survivor’ : Narratives of coping and resilience in recollections of difficult childhood in post-war Finland
2018
In post-war Finland thousands of children experienced poor upbringing, neglect and abuse, and had to deal with their experiences without social support from adults. In this article we study how difficult and bitter experiences related to childhood crises are remembered, reinterpreted and reframed in later life and in contemporary Finland. As research material we use both oral and written reminiscences of childhood in the post-war years collected in the period 2014–2016. We argue that in the recollections of difficult childhood coping and resilience emerge as major narrative themes. Although informants in their childhood were forced to suffer in silence, they remember themselves as being res…
Psychological variables and temporomandibular disorders: distress, coping, and personality.
2004
Abstract Objective This study analyzes the psychological variables of distress, personality, and coping that are related to the diagnosis based on the Research Diagnostic Criteria for temporomandibular disorder. Study design An age and sex-matched controlled study conducted with a convenience sample (n = 89) in a tertiary care facility. Results The MANCOVA between the muscular (n = 47), articular (n = 42), and control groups (n = 100) showed that the muscular group differed from the control group, obtaining higher levels of distress, anxiety, and depression, and minor use of positive reinterpretation and humor as coping strategies; the articular group also showed higher distress, less posit…
Musiikin kuuntelu itsehoidollisena menetelmänä stressin lievityksessä
2016
Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena oli tarkastella musiikin kuuntelua stressin lievityksessä arkipäivässä. Musiikin kuuntelun on todettu lievittävän stressiä tehokkaasti mutta aiemmat tutkimukset aiheesta ovat olleet lähinnä määrällisiä. Tässä tutkimuksessa aihetta lähestyttiin laadullisin menetelmin, jossa pyrittiin stressin lievityksen osalta kartoittamaan musiikillisten piirteiden lisäksi myös ihmisten kokemuksia aiheesta. Tutkimus toteutettiin haastattelemalla neljää henkilöä, jotka kuuntelivat musiikkia arkipäivässään stressin lievitykseen. Haastatteluaineisto analysoitiin sisällönanalyysin keinoin. Tutkimustulosten myötä havaittiin, että stressin lievityksessä musiikin tärkeimmät piirteet…