scholarly journals Reciprocal Links Between Physical Health and Coping Among Adolescents With Cystic Fibrosis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina M D’Angelo ◽  
Sylvie Mrug ◽  
Daniel Grossoehme ◽  
Kevin Leon ◽  
Lacrecia Thomas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Secular Coping

Abstract Objective Adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF) often face a unique set of difficulties and challenges as they transition to adulthood and autonomy while also managing a progressive illness with a heavy treatment burden. Coping styles have been related to changes in physical health among youth with chronic illness more generally, but the directionality of these links has not been fully elucidated. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate bidirectional links between coping styles and physical health indicators among adolescents with CF over time. Methods Adolescents (N = 79, 54% female) recruited from inpatient and outpatient CF clinics at two sites completed questionnaires assessing secular and religious/spiritual coping styles at two time points (18 months apart, on average). Health indicators including pulmonary functioning, nutritional status, and days hospitalized were obtained from medical records. Results More frequent hospitalizations predicted lower levels of adaptive secular coping over time. However, poorer pulmonary functioning predicted higher levels of positive religious/spiritual coping. The number of days hospitalized was related to adaptive secular coping and negative religious/spiritual coping. Conclusions Among youth with CF, physical health functioning is more consistent in predicting coping strategies than the reverse. Poorer pulmonary functioning appears to enhance adaptive coping over time, suggesting resilience of adolescents with CF, while more frequent hospitalizations may inhibit the use of adaptive coping strategies. Findings support the use of interventions aimed at promoting healthy coping among hospitalized adolescents with CF.

scholarly journals Resilience and coping strategies in relation to mental health outcomes in people with cancer

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0252075
Author(s):  
Patricia Macía ◽  
Mercedes Barranco ◽  
Susana Gorbeña ◽  
Esther Álvarez-Fuentes ◽  
Ioseba Iraurgi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽  
And Coping

Considering the importance of psychological variables on health-related processes, this study investigated the role of resilience and coping strategies in relation to health. The aim of this research was to explore the underlying association between these aspects for the better understanding of the effect of psychosocial variables on mental health in cancer. This information could lead to the design of adapted psychological interventions in cancer. Participants with different diagnosis of cancer were recruited (N = 170). They came from the Spanish Association Against Cancer of Biscay. Resilience was measured with the 10 items Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, coping with the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and mental health was measured as a global indicator through the SF-12 and the GHQ-12. A structural equation model (SEM) was conducted to test the effects between the constructs. Results showed that resilience and coping were significantly associated. Results reflected an absence of significant correlation between adaptive and disadaptive coping strategies. Resilience was the factor that most correlated with health outcomes (β = –.45, p < .001). However, disadaptive coping strategies did not correlate with resilience or mental health indicators. Findings in this study underscore the positive contribution of high levels of resilience and an adaptive coping on participants´ level of health. Disadaptive coping strategies did not reflect any positive relation with resilience or health indicators. Thus, promoting resilience and adaptive coping could be a significant goal for psychosocial and educational interventions in people with cancer.

Religious coping in adolescents: New evidence and relevance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lluis Oviedo ◽  
Josefa Torralba
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Coping Resource ◽  
Life Crisis ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Secular Coping ◽  
Religious Decline

Adolescence is frequently seen as a troubled age and, in many societies, as a time of sharp religious decline. The question arises to what extent religious faith and practice could still help teenagers to cope with their distress, especially when religion fades away in secularized environments and stops being a common coping resource. A new survey has been conducted in South-East Spain (N=531) to assess coping styles – religious and secular – and how they are related to other variables. The outcomes confirm that religious coping becomes a minority choice; it is related to age – for those older in the sample – and is mixed with secular coping strategies. Secularization implies a confidence lost in religious means to tackle distress and life crisis and the search for alternative coping strategies. The study explores the practical implications of those outcomes.

scholarly journals Coping Strategies and Subjective Well-being: Context Matters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabea Fischer ◽  
Jakob Scheunemann ◽  
Steffen Moritz
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Expressive Suppression

AbstractA growing body of research suggests that the functionality of coping strategies may in part depend on the context in which they are executed. Thus far, functionality has mostly been defined through the associations of coping strategies with psychopathology, particularly depression. Whether associations of coping strategies with proxies for happiness such as subjective well-being (SWB) are simply inverse remains to be shown. A total of n = 836 individuals from the U. S. general population participated in an online survey that included a revised version of the Maladaptive and Adaptive Coping Styles Questionnaire (MAX-R) that incorporates context-specific items, the Scale of Positive and Negative Affect (SPANE), the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale (TSWLS), the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and the Web Screening Questionnaire (WSQ). The MAX-R was submitted to an exploratory factor analysis. The factor analysis of the MAX-R yielded four subscales: adaptive, maladaptive, avoidance, and expressive suppression coping. Similar strategies in different contexts at times loaded on the same (e.g., maladaptive) or different (e.g., adaptive and avoidance) dimensions. Hierarchical multiple linear regression revealed significant associations of adaptive coping with SPANE (ß = 0.21), TSWLS (ß = 0.03), and PHQ-9 (ß = 0.07), all ps < .001, of maladaptive coping with SPANE (ß =  − 0.19), TSWLS (ß =  − 0.10), and PHQ-9 (ß = 0.02), all ps < .01, of avoidance with PHQ-9 (ß =  0.01, p < .001), and of expressive suppression with SPANE (ß =  − 0.06) and TSWLS (ß =  − 0.16), ps < .005. Final models explained 64.6% of variance in SPANE, 41.8% of variance in TSWLS, and 55% of variance in PHQ-9 score. In some instances, the functionality of coping strategies appears to be impacted by contextual factors. When investigating the overall benefit of use versus nonuse of coping strategies, their association with psychopathology measures and with subjective well-being should both be considered.

scholarly journals Current characteristics, challenges and coping strategies of young people with cystic fibrosis as they transition to adulthood

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Askew ◽  
Jade Bamford ◽  
Nicholas Hudson ◽  
Juliana Moratelli ◽  
Rachel Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Current Characteristics ◽  
And Coping

scholarly journals Religious coping in adolescents: new evidence and relevance

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefa Torralba ◽  
Lluis Oviedo ◽  
Manuel Canteras
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Coping Resource ◽  
A Minor ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Secular Coping ◽  
Religious Decline

AbstractAdolescence is frequently seen as a troubled age. In many Western societies this is also a time of sharp religious decline. The question arises as to what extent religious faith and practice could help teenagers cope with their distress, especially when religion fades away in secularized environments and stops being a common coping resource. A study was conducted in South-East Spain (N = 531) to assess coping styles—religious and secular—and how they are related to other variables. The outcomes suggest that religious coping has become a minor choice. It correlates positively with age and is mixed with secular coping strategies. Secularization implies a confidence lost in religious means and the search for alternative coping strategies. This study reveals that religious coping works best when linked to religious communities and in combination with other non-religious strategies.

scholarly journals To Cope or Not to Cope? Characterizing Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Coping with Teaching and Research Anxieties

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. ar56
Author(s):  
Miranda M. Chen Musgrove ◽  
Alyssa Cooley ◽  
Olivia Feiten ◽  
Kate Petrie ◽  
Elisabeth E. Schussler
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Graduate Teaching Assistant ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Graduate Teaching ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
Over Time

Biology graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) often used adaptive coping strategies to manage teaching and research anxieties. Notably, GTAs tended to use strategies such as support seeking, self-reliance, accommodation, and distraction more often to manage research anxieties compared with teaching anxieties. Over time, GTAs narrowed their adaptive coping to certain strategies.

scholarly journals Target Coping Strategies for Interventions Aimed at Maximizing Psychosocial Adjustment in People with Multiple Sclerosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa B. Grech ◽  
Litza A. Kiropoulos ◽  
Katherine M. Kirby ◽  
Ernest Butler ◽  
Mark Paine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Psychosocial Adjustment ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Psychosocial Outcomes ◽  
Adaptive Coping

Background: The experience of psychological distress is prevalent in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), including high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. It has been shown that people with MS use less adaptive coping compared with healthy individuals. This study examined the ability of coping strategies to predict maladaptive and adaptive psychosocial outcomes across areas of stress, depression, anxiety, and quality of life (QOL) in people with MS. Methods: 107 people with MS completed measures of depression (Beck Depression Inventory–II), anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory), QOL (Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life–54), stress (Daily Hassles Scale), and coping (COPE inventory). Results: Consistent with expectations, depression, frequency of stress, trait anxiety, and mental health QOL were predicted by adaptive and maladaptive coping styles. Severity of stressful events was predicted by maladaptive, but not adaptive, coping styles. Depression and mental health QOL were most prominently connected to coping use. Emotional preoccupation and venting showed the strongest relationship with poorer psychosocial outcomes, whereas positive reinterpretation and growth seemed to be most beneficial. Conclusions: The results of this study highlight the importance of intervention programs targeting specific coping strategies to enhance psychosocial adjustment for people with MS.

scholarly journals Interactions Between Experience, Genotype and Sex in the Development of Individual Coping Strategies

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossella Ventura ◽  
Simona Cabib ◽  
Lucy Babicola ◽  
Diego Andolina ◽  
Matteo Di Segni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Severe Stress ◽  
First Line ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Brain Circuits ◽  
Adverse Experiences ◽  
The Brain

Coping strategies, the first line of defense against adversities, develop through experience. There is consistent evidence that both genotype and sex contribute to the development of dysfunctional coping, leading to maladaptive outcomes of adverse experiences or to adaptive coping that fosters rapid recovery even from severe stress. However, how these factors interact to influence the development of individual coping strategies is just starting to be investigated. In the following review, we will consider evidence that experience, sex, and genotype influence the brain circuits and neurobiological processes involved in coping with adversities and discuss recent results pointing to the specific effects of the interaction between early experiences, genotype, and stress in the development of functional and dysfunctional coping styles.

Coping and Pre-Licensure Registered Nursing Students: An Integrative Literature Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danna L. Salinas-Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Nursing Programs ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Registered Nursing

AbstractDespite a wealth of information and growing diversity among nursing students, little is known about coping behaviors employed by these students or students educated in diverse environments. The aim of this integrative literature review was to examine what is known about stress, coping, measures of coping, and interventions to enhance coping, and in pre-licensure nursing students. Twenty-six peer-reviewed research articles were included. Stress, coping styles and behaviors, support, interventions, and instruments to measure coping were identified as key themes. Variations in coping were noted by gender, age, length of time in the program, and culture. Analysis of the literature illuminated the importance of support for students, and strong indications suggested educators play a pivotal role in helping students develop adaptive coping strategies. Nursing programs should consider incorporating coping instruction into the curricula.

Role of Adaptive Coping Strategies in Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Kranzler ◽  
Emily A. Panza ◽  
Matthew K. Nock ◽  
Edward A. Selby
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Nonsuicidal Self Injury
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