[Coping for paranoid ideation in college students].
Research has shown that individual with a high level of paranoia use more avoidant coping strategies (Ellett, Lopes, & Chadwick, 2003). The present study examines coping strategies in 141 college students with lower or higher levels of paranoid ideation using the Paranoia Scale (Fenigstein & Vanable, 1992) and the Interpersonal Stress Coping Inventory (ISI; Kato, 2000). Participants were first required to complete the ISI for paranoid ideation (ISI-pre). They were then asked to complete ISI again (ISI-post) on the assumption that the previous coping strategies (ISI-pre) did not work well. The results showed that people with a higher level of paranoid ideation reported more negative relationship-oriented strategies on both the ISI-pre and ISI-post. The ISI-pre was higher than ISI post for positive relationship-oriented strategies among the participants with a higher level of paranoid ideation. These results suggested that people with paranoid ideation keep using the negative relationship-oriented strategies and reduce positive relationship-oriented strategies, if the primary coping strategies do not work well.
Morimoto
Sachiko
S
Saitama Institute of Technology, Japan. s-morimoto@sendai-shirayuri.ac.jp
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory