Relationship between coping with negative life-events and psychopathology: major depression and borderline personality disorder.
Ninety psychiatric in-patients and 73 controls have been asked about their coping styles to negative life-events. Patients reported more emotion-oriented coping than controls. Emotion-oriented coping style was positively correlated with psychopathology, while task-oriented coping was negatively correlated with psychopathology in events which the participants had difficulties dealing with.
Wingenfeld
Katja
K
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. k.wingenfeld@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Mensebach
Christoph
C
Rullkoetter
Nina
N
Schlosser
Nicole
N
Schaffrath
Camille
C
Beblo
Thomas
T
Driessen
Martin
M
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011340:Problem Solving; D011594:Psychometrics; D011599:Psychopathology; D012016:Reference Values; D055815:Young Adult