Exploring Emotional, Problem Focus and Dysfunctional Coping Strategies and Life Satisfaction among Married and Unmarried Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Abstract

The research objective is to investigate the connection between life satisfaction and various coping methodologies, including emotions, problems, and dysfunctional coping skills among married and unmarried patients suffering from spinal cord injuries (SCI). A00 spinal cord individuals with a marital status ratio of 29% participated. From Paraplegic Center, Peshawar, the sample was selected using the purposive sampling technique. The Life satisfaction and Brief Cope scale were used. The findings of the study indicate that life gratification stood considerably and progressively associated with emotional coping (r = .32, p<.01) and meaningful and undesirably associated with problem-focused cope (r = .27, p<.01) and dysfunctional cope (r = .23, p<.05). Emotion focused cope considerably and absolutely while problem-focused cope adversely predicts life gratification. In addition, dysfunctional coping negatively predicts life satisfaction but was not statistically significant, and the model explains 21% of the variance. The findings of the study showed that emotionfocused coping and problem-focused coping was significantly high among married spinal cord injury patients than among single spinal cord injury patients (p<.01). The current study findings reflect a dire need for the management of these psychological problems by using different kinds of evidence-based psychotherapies such as Narrative exposure therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and family therapy. Mixed methods, i.e., Qualitative and quantitative methods, should be used in future studies to explore the phenomenon in detail