Effects Of Problem-focused Coping Research Articles

The Effect of Problem Focused Coping on Anxiety and Stress of Nursing Students During Online Learning

This study aims to determine the effect of problem-focused coping on nursing students' anxiety and stress during online learning. This research method uses a quasi-experimental method with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The results showed that most of the experimental group's initial anxiety was moderate (35.5%) and the control group was also moderate (35.5%). Most of the anxiety in the experimental group is normal and mild (29.0%) and the control group is moderate (41.9%). Most of the initial stress in the experimental group was moderate (61.3%) and the control group was also moderate (51.6%). Most of the final stress in the experimental group was normal and moderate (32.3%) and the control group was moderate (38.7%). There is an effect of the problem-focused coping method on anxiety ( = 0.001) and stress ( = 0.000) in nursing students in online learning. The conclusion from this study is that the problem-focused coping method in academic guidance can be used as a method for reducing anxiety and stress in students, especially students during online learning.
 Keywords: Anxiety, Online Learning, Problem Focused Coping, Stress

Relationship between a Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset and the Psychological Well-Being of Undergraduate Students: Mediating Effects of Problem-Focused Coping, Avoidance-Focused Coping, and Stress Response

Relationship between a Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset and the Psychological Well-Being of Undergraduate Students: Mediating Effects of Problem-Focused Coping, Avoidance-Focused Coping, and Stress Response

Stressful Experiences, Coping Strategies, and Predictors of Health-related Outcomes among Wives of Deployed Military Servicemen

A survey of military wives ( N = 77) identifies their most stressful experiences, self-appraised control over these stressors, and coping strategies used. The authors examine two competing hypotheses: the goodness-of-fit hypothesis that the effects of problem-focused coping (PFC) and emotion-focused coping (EFC) strategies on distress are moderated by the appraised controllability of the stressor, and the main-effects hypothesis that PFC strategies are more effective than EFC strategies in reducing distress regardless of appraisal of controllability. Wives identified deployment of soldiers as their most stressful experience, and reported using PFC strategies more frequently than EFC strategies. EFC strategies were predictive of greater physical symptoms of illness, while PFC strategies were related to reduced physical symptoms of illness only when military wives’ perceived control of the situation was low. PFC strategies and controllability were significantly related to decreased depressive symptoms; EFC was marginally related to increased depressive symptoms, lending greater support to the main-effects hypothesis.

Coping, Distress, and Life Events in a Community Sample.

Hasida Ben-ZurUniversity of HaifaCoping strategies represent behavioral and cognitive efforts to deal withstressful encounters (R. S. Lazarus & S. Folkman, 1984). This study aimed toassess the pattern of associations between demographic variables, problem-and emotion-focused coping, and distress. A representative sample of 510adult Israelis completed coping and distress inventories. Emotion-focusedcoping showed strong positive associations with distress, whereas problem-focused coping was negatively related to this variable, although to a lesserdegree. The effects of problem-focused coping on distress were more pro-nounced for participants who had experienced a recent life event. Theconclusion to be drawn is that stressful conditions may enhance the effects ofcoping strategies on distress.

Stress, Coping and Adaptation to New Parenthood

A longitudinal study of 123 couples provided some support for the utility of a model of adaptation to parenthood. Even when the effects of initial well-being were controlled, the level of subjective stress (strain) and the use of tension-reducing coping strategies emerged as (negative) predictors of contemporaneous and delayed measures of adaptation. This support for the model was also evident when an external measure of adaptation was utilized. There was, additionally, support for the proposal that problem-focused coping facilitates adaptation to new parenthood, although 18 weeks after the birth this effect was evident only for males. In relation to coping resources, the data provided some support for the proposed effects of the individual resources (self-esteem, internality) and both marital and family support. Non-family support was not related to any of the measures of adaptation. There was some evidence that females experienced lower levels of psychological well-being in the immediate postnatal period than males, while males rated their partner's coping effectiveness more poorly than females. In addition to the gender difference in the effects of problem-focused coping, there was also evidence to suggest that the effects of internality on adaptation 4 weeks after the event differed for males and females.