Abstract
In the past years, research has shown that monitoring (information seeking) and blunting (information avoiding) coping styles play a role in the adaptation to stressful medical situations. The present study examined 70 normal subjects who were threatened by a realistic medical film about brain surgery. Coping behaviour and subjective experience were investigated in relation to habitual coping style (as indexed by three monitoring/blunting questionnaires) and pre-existing medical fears. It was found that only the Threatening Medical Situation Inventory could to some extent predict coping behaviour in this experimental situation. Furthermore, subjective experience was predominantly determined by pre-existing medical fears. Implications of these findings will be discussed.
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