Correlates of coping style in patients with multiple sclerosis.
To examine certain correlates of patterns of coping with stress, 43 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) read a vignette describing a stressful social situation and completed the Ways of Coping Checklist, describing how they would cope with the stressful situation. Performance on a test of solving problems in everyday living was positively correlated with the total number of coping responses and with the number of problem-focused strategies, but neither vocabulary nor verbal abstract reasoning were related to coping patterns. In agreement with earlier work, increases in psychological distress were positively correlated with endorsement of emotion-focused coping strategies but unrelated to the use of other coping responses.
Beatty
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73190, USA.
Hames
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Blanco
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Williamson
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Wilbanks
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Olson
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D011340:Problem Solving; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*