COPING WITH STRESS Research Articles

Not Simply a Structural Problem: Psychological Determinants of Headache in Patients with Tumors of the Sellar Region.

Headache in patients with tumors of the sellar region (TSR) has previously been attributed entirely to biomechanical causes. This study aimed to investigate the influence of psychological determinants for the occurrence of and disability due to headaches in patients with TSR. This was a cross-sectional single-center study with a logistic regression approach. Eighty-four patients (75%) with pituitary adenomas and 28 with other TSR prior to first-time neurosurgery were investigated. One-hundred and twelve patients received standardized questionnaires on personality, headache characteristics, and disability due to headache. Fifty-nine patients additionally filled in questionnaires about coping with stress and pain catastrophizing. Separate logistic regression models were used to predict the risk of headache occurrence and disability due to headache by personality, stress coping, and pain catastrophizing. Conscientiousness, neuroticism, and pain catastrophizing were significant predictors of headache occurrence. The amount of explained variance for both models predicting headache occurrence was comparable to that in primary headache. Neuroticism, pain catastrophizing, and humor as a coping strategy predicted disability due to headache with a high variance explanation of 20-40%. For the first time, we report data supporting a strong psychological influence on headache and headache-related disability in patients with TSR, which argue against purely mechanistic explanatory models. Physicians treating patients with TSR and headaches should adopt an integrative diagnostic and treatment approach, taking the biopsychosocial model of pain into account.

Sociodemographic and Psychological Variables and Concerns Related to COVID-19 Vaccination among Polish Citizens.

The aim of this study performed during the fourth wave of the pandemic was to analyse differences in sociodemographic and psychological variables between those who cite concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccination and those who do not, as well as the differences between those whose concerns stem from a negative evaluation of vaccines and those whose concerns are based on a positive evaluation of vaccines. The study included 417 participants aged 18 to 76 years (M = 34, SD = 13.9). Among the respondents, 89% were female. A survey questionnaire on sociodemographic variables and standardized research tools were used: mood (UMACL), emotions (PANAS), satisfaction with life (SWLS), optimism (LOT-R), and coping with stress (CISS). The results of the study indicate that the elderly and working people are concerned about inadequate vaccination of the population, whereas students are concerned about the pressure of compulsory vaccination. People who are concerned about inadequate vaccination of population are more likely to experience concerns about various stressors. Our results do not indicate a relationship between psychological variables and vaccination-related concerns. The results obtained may be the basis for the identification of target groups in order to adapt social campaigns promoting vaccination against COVID-19 in Poland.

EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSES' WAYS OF COPING WITH STRESS AND HUMOR STYLES

EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSES' WAYS OF COPING WITH STRESS AND HUMOR STYLES

Predictors of Positive and Negative Emotions Experienced by Poles during the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The objective of the research was to specify the predictors of positive and negative emotions experienced by Poles during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers used the following standardized measurement tools: emotions (PANAS), mood (UMACL), satisfaction with life (SWLS), optimism (LOT-R), and coping with stress (CISS). They also used a questionnaire to collect sociodemographic information and data concerning COVID-19 infections. In total, 595 participants (80.50% women) aged 18–75 participated in the research. It was concluded that the predictors of positive emotions included a task-oriented coping style, level of satisfaction with life, being a man, hedonic tone in the description of mood, and being an employed student. The negative predictors of positive emotions included emotion-oriented coping and the level of energetic arousal in the description of mood. The predictors of negative emotions were tense arousal in the description of mood, emotion-oriented coping, being over 60 years of age, and changes in respondents’ standard of living. The negative predictors of negative emotions included living in a medium-sized town or in a village. The research conclusions encourage us to pay special attention to possible at-risk groups threatened with mental health disorders and to factors that protect people against negative psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nursing Intervention to Improve the Caregivers’ Practices toward Elderly Care at Geriatric Homes

Population ageing is a global phenomenon with the number of persons 60 years and over estimated to reachtwo billion by the year 2050; living longer is joined to challenges of disability and being dependent oncaregivers who should have the chance to perform their practices by professional way as an integral partof elderly care. Aim: To evaluate the nursing intervention program to improve the caregivers’ practices ofelderly care at geriatric homes. Design: Quasi-experimental research design. Setting: In geriatric homes atCairo governorate. Sample: A convenient sample of all elderly caregivers working in the previous mentionedsettings. Tool: Was used an interviewing questionnaire to assess socio-demographic characteristics ofelderly caregivers, their knowledge, their practices & factors causing stress to them & their coping withstress. Conclusion: The nursing intervention program implementation had statistically significant positiveeffect on elderly caregivers at geriatric homes regarding to their knowledge, practices &coping with stress.

Psychological Capital and Teacher Well-being: The Mediation Role of Coping with Stress

<p style="text-align:justify">This study aimed to investigate the mediation role of coping with stress between psychological capital and teacher well-being based on positive psychology, conservation resource, and broaden-and-build theories. Participants in this study were 836 teachers from three clustered, ethnically diverse public universities. Our findings showed that, in line with previous studies, the psychological capital (PsyCap), coping with stress (CWS), and teacher well-being (TWB) dimensions showed the best fit in our data. PsyCap was related positively to TWB (total and dimensions), CWS, coping through withdrawal, and negative coping with acceptance and change. The indirect effect of PsyCap on TWB through coping with stress was fully mediated. PsyCap also positively and directly affected TWB and CWS. Coping through acceptance and change were fully mediated by PsyCap and TWB dimensions, while coping through withdrawal was not. PsyCap directly and positively affected coping with stress (acceptance and change) and negatively affected coping through withdrawal. Future theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>

Adaptation of the Coping With Stress Course for Black Adolescents in Low-Income Communities: Examples of Surface Structure and Deep Structure Cultural Adaptations

Black adolescents in low-income communities are at increased risk of developing mental health problems due to the impact of cumulative poverty-related stressors and racial discrimination, yet Black youth have relatively low rates of mental health service utilization, resulting in significant unmet need. The Coping With Stress (CWS) Course is an evidence-based, cognitive behavioral intervention that has been shown to reduce the incidence of anxiety, mood, and conduct problems among predominantly White samples, as well as Asian and Latinx youth. In the past 25 years since the CWS Course was introduced, Black adolescents have either been severely underrepresented or conspicuously absent from program evaluation research on the CWS Course, with few exceptions. The purpose of this article is threefold: (1) to justify the need for cultural adaptations to the CWS Course for Black adolescents from low-income communities, (2) to describe the scientific basis for the specific surface structure and deep structure modifications made to the culturally adapted version of the CWS Course, known as Resilient In spite of Stressful Events or RISE, and (3) to illustrate the deep structure adaptations with a vignette drawn from implementation of the RISE program with Black adolescents in a low-income, urban community.

Personalized Depression Prevention: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Optimize Effects Through Risk-Informed Personalization

To evaluate whether evidence-based depression prevention programs can be optimized by matching youths to interventions that address their psychosocial vulnerabilities. This randomized controlled trial included 204 adolescents (mean [SD] age= 14.26 [1.65] years; 56.4% female). Youths were categorized as high or low on cognitive and interpersonal risks for depression and randomly assigned to Coping With Stress (CWS), a cognitive-behavioral program, or Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST), an interpersonal program. Some participants received a match between risk and prevention (eg, high cognitive-low interpersonal risk teen in CWS, low cognitive-high interpersonal risk teen in IPT-AST), others received a mismatch (eg, low cognitive-high interpersonal risk teen in CWS). Outcomes were depression diagnoses and symptoms through 18 months postintervention (21 months total). Matched adolescents showed significantly greater decreases in depressive symptoms than mismatched adolescents from postintervention through 18-month follow-up and across the entire 21-month study period (effect size [d]= 0.44, 95% CI= 0.02, 0.86). There was no significant difference in rates of depressive disorders among matched adolescents compared with mismatched adolescents (12.0% versus 18.3%, t193= .78, p= .44). This study illustrates one approach to personalizing depression prevention as a form of precision mental health. Findings suggest that risk-informed personalization may enhance effects beyond a one-size-fits-all approach. Bending Adolescent Depression Trajectories Through Personalized Prevention; https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/; NCT01948167.

ОСОБИСТІСНИЙ РЕСУРС ПОДОЛАННЯ СТРЕСУ ЖИТТЄВОЇ СИТУАЦІЇ

ОСОБИСТІСНИЙ РЕСУРС ПОДОЛАННЯ СТРЕСУ ЖИТТЄВОЇ СИТУАЦІЇ

Personality and temperamental determinants of styles of coping with stress in male and female football players

The aim of this paper was to determine the patterns of personality and temperament conditions for coping with stress in football players. The study examined 252 people (168 men, 84 women, the average age was 24.09 years). The athletes were representatives of the Ekstraklasa, and the I and II football Liga. They formed 3 groups: the fi rst group comprised men from the Ekstraklasa, the second - men from the II Liga and the third - women from the Ekstraklasa and the I Liga. The research made use of the following tools: NEO- FFI Personality Inventory in the Polish adaptation by Zawadzki et al. (1998), FCB - TI Temperament Questionnaire (1997), Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) by Endler and Parker, in the Polish adaptation by Strelau et al. (2007). Analysis of the results showed that agreeableness (AG), conscientiousness (CS) and perseverance (PE) proved to be important predictors of the task-oriented coping (TOC). Emotion-oriented coping (EOC) is conditioned by: neuroticism (NEU), agreeableness (AG), conscientiousness (CS) and perseverance (PE). In the case of avoidance coping (AOC), extraversion (E) and activity (A) turned out to be important predictors. However, the style of coping oriented towards engagement in substitute activities (involving in substitute activities - ISA) is conditioned by: neuroticism (NEU) and extraversion (E). Extraversion is also the predictor of dealing with stress oriented towards searching for social contacts (social contacts seeking – SCS).

EXAMINATION OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BURNOUT AND STYLES OF COPING WITH STRESS AT NURSES

This investigation had been done as descriptive for examination of relationship between burnout and coping with stres methods at the nurses who work in Ataturk Univercity Yakutiye Research Hospital in Erzurum. Data of investigation had been collected October 2008 to March 2009. Sample had not been chosen for the research, alll of the universe had been taken as sample. The investigation had been completed with 105 nurses who work at the hospital and want to join this research. Question Form, Maslach Burnout Inventory and Coping With the Stress Scale (CWS) which are improved by researceher had been used to collect data. T test, Pearson correlation test, variance analysis, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal- Wallis test had been used to appraise of data. Nurses’s average of point at the MBI is 34.2±11.0, nurses’s average of point at the CWS is 70.1±6.31. Difference between opinion of nurses about wages and emotional depletions average of points which is subsection of MBI had been found meaningful in istatistical (p= 0.01). Difference between put knowledge of nurses in to practice and average of point of personal success with emotional depletion which are subsection of MBI had been found meaningful in istatistical (p=0.01). Difference between working position and average of points of abstention which is subsection of CWS had been found meaningful in istatistical (p=0.01). Difference between working year and average of points of abstention, difference between opinion of nurses about wages and average of points of abstention had been meaningful in istatistical (p=0.05). Relationship between personal success which is subsection of MBI and abstention which is subsection of CWS had been found meaningful in istatistical (p=0.05). As a result nurses are more exposed to stress at working environment and this situation had lead to burnout at the nurses. That had been determined.

EXAMINATION OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BURNOUT AND STYLES OF COPING WITH STRESS AT NURSES

EXAMINATION OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BURNOUT AND STYLES OF COPING WITH STRESS AT NURSES

Ways of copyng with stress amongst displaced persons

The research project sought to establish the applicability of Endler's scale of ways of coping with stress (CISS) in a specific, extremely stressful situation, such as war and to discover what were the siartegies used by displaced persons to cope with wartime stress. The investigation targeted a sample of 379 persons between the ages of 18-60 who were divided into two groups according to their exposure to different kinds and to various intensities of wartime stress. The first group was made up of displaced persons, i.e. people who were forced to flee their homes and relocate to settlements (N=190), while the second group encompassed undisplaced persons, i.e. the citizens of Zadar and Split who did not leave their homes during the period of war operations. Endler's scale (CISS) was used to measure the ways of coping with wartime stress, while the evaluation of the threat of aspects of war was obtained by a Scale construed within the wider project of measuring wartime stress. A factor analysis of Endler's scale extracted four factors which were defined, in accordance with the author's interpretation, as Coping directed at the problem. Coping directed at the emotions. Distraction and Social diversion. However, it was established that the number of applied units is determined by the specificity of the situation. On the basis of the results of covariance analysis it was discovered that the frequency of relying on different ways of coping with stress amongst displaced persons is determined by the characterisics of the stress situation.

Eating behaviour in relation to personality dimensions and self-esteem

The research goal was to investigate the relationship between personality dimensions, self -esteem and eating behaviour invarious circumstances. We were interested in differences between general eating behaviour patterns and eating behaviourof people in distress. Participants were 303 adults who filled out five questionnaires on eating behaviour patterns, eating a ndappraisal due to emotions and stress, the big five inventory, contingent self-esteem scale and instability of self-esteem scale.The results show that younger participants are keener to haphazard planning of meals and have higher appraisals of outsidestressors and influences. Also, their score in neuroticism and openness were higher, and they expressed higher contingentself-esteem. According to the factorial structure, the factors of eating behaviour and psychological dimensions: coping withstress and extraversion, influence of outside stressors and contingent self -esteem, and eating behaviour patterns. Thefindings could be promising in further research of personality dimension and eating behaviour habits.Keywords: Eating behaviour, personality, self-esteem, stress.

OBESITY-RELATED SELF-ESTEEM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO COPING WITH STRESS

OBESITY-RELATED SELF-ESTEEM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO COPING WITH STRESS

Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Selfleadership on Students' Coping with Stress

We examined the impacts of emotional intelligence and self-leadership on coping with stress, and assessing the mediating roles that positive affect and self-efficacy play in this process. Participants were 575 students at 2 Chinese universities, who completed measures of coping with stress, self-leadership, emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, and positive affect. The structural equation model analysis results indicated that self-efficacy fully mediated the relationship between emotional intelligence and active coping, as we had predicted. Further, self-leadership had a direct effect on active coping. However, positive affect and self-efficacy did not mediate the relationship between self-leadership and coping with stress. Implications are discussed in terms of theoretical contributions and interventions for coping with stress.

Impact of Parents’ Attachment Behaviors on Stress Coping Ability and Suicidal Impulse Control among College Students

본 연구는 부모의 애착행위가 보건계열 대학생의 스트레스 대처와 자살충동통제력에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 검증하고자 실시하였다. 첫째, 부모의 애착행위가 스트레스대처능력에 미치는 영향에 대해 다중회귀분석(multiple regression analysis)한 실시한 결과 회귀식은 (R²=.09, F=5.28, p<.001)로 99.9% 신뢰수준 이상에서 통계적으로 유의한 영향관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 부모의 애착행위가 자살충동통제력에 미치는 영향에 대해 다중회귀분석(multiple regression analysis)을 실시한 결과 회귀식은 (R²=.097, F=4.79, p<.01)로 99% 신뢰수준 이상에서 통계적으로 유의한 영향관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 분석결과를 토대로 부모의 애착행위가 스트레스대처능력과 자살충동통제력에 영향을 주기 때문에, 부모의 애착행위를 향상시키는 전략은 스트레스대처능력을 길러주고 자살충동을 억제하는데 기여할 수 있다고 본다.This study was conducted to verify how the attachment behavior of parents affect the ability coping withstress and control over suicidal impulse among the college students majoring in health. The multiple regressionmodel was developed for the impact of the parents’ attachment activities on the students’ stress coping skills (R² = .096, F = 5.283, p <.001), indicating a statistically significant association. The impact of parentalattachment behavior on suicidal impulse control was also found statistically significant from the regressionmodel (R² = .097, F = 4.79, p <.01). The results of this analysis highlight that attachment behavior of parentscan influence the stress coping ability and suicidal thought control of their children, and thus the strategy to improve parental attachment behaviors could contribute to enhancing the stress coping skills and suppressingthe suicidal impulse of their children.

Differential Diagnosis of Subjective Workload and Styles of Coping with Stress among Aircraft Crewmembers

2013 | Volume19 | Issue 4 | 11 This publication concerns psychological characterization of workload and coping with stress among commercial aircraft crews. Analysis was conducted on two study groups: experimental group – pilots (n=19) and commercial aircraft cabin crew (n=22), and control group – shopping mall employees (n=28). Occupational task load was assessed using Polish version of NASA-TLX tool. Styles of coping with stress were evaluated using Polish version of Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) by N.S. Endler and D.A. Parker. We validated diff erences between pilots and aircraft cabin crew and control group both with regard to the style of coping with stress as well as specifi cs of occupational burden. It was noted that assessment of both subjective workload and styles of coping with stress among pilots and aircraft personnel in comparison to control group also characterizes work specifi cs for both of those vocational groups. Methods of studying subjective workload and styles of coping with stress may be used for diff erential diagnosis of task-related aspects of various vocations. pilots, aircraft personnel, workload, coping with stress DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF SUBJECTIVE WORKLOAD AND STYLES OF COPING WITH STRESS AMONG AIRCRAFT CREWMEMBERS

THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG COPING WITH STRESS, LIFE SATISFACTION, DECISION-MAKING STYLES AND DECISION SELF-ESTEEM: AN INVESTIGATION WITH TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

The aim of this study was to determine the relationships among styles of coping with stress, decision self-esteem, decision-making styles and life satisfaction. The sample consisted of 492 university students. Life satisfaction was found to be positively correlated to problem-focused coping and seeking social support. It was also found that life satisfaction is significantly correlated to decision self-esteem and all decision-making styles (vigilance, buckpassing, procrastination, and hypervigilance). In addition, significant relationships were found among coping with stress, decision self-esteem and decision-making styles.

TRAIT ANXIETY, COPING WITH STRESS, AND NORHARMAN

Plasma levels of the β-carboline norharman, concentration of platelet 5-HT, trait measures of anxiety, and measures of coping and defense mechanisms were compared for 15 patients with panic disorder and 24 healthy volunteers. Patients indicated that they made less use of the defense mechanism of principalization than control subjects. No other differences between patients and controls were significant. Platelet 5-HT concentration was positively correlated with the subjectively reported anxiety. Plasma norharman concentration was negatively correlated with the defense mechanisms of principalization and repression and positively correlated with coping strategies involving palliation. The positive correlations of norharman levels with projection and self-comforting fell short of significance and existed in the patient group only. No correlation was apparent between levels of plasma norharman and scores on anxiety. It was concluded that norharman is not a marker for panic disorder or trait anxiety, but that it might reflect intrapsychic and coping processes.