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Coping strategies in a sample of anxiety patients: factorial analysis and associations with psychopathology
BACKGROUND: The relationship between coping styles and mental disorders has received considerable attention and instruments have been developed to assess coping strategies. The measurement by means of category systems has been criticized and a functional hierarchy of action types linked to the adapt...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4559016/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26356192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.351 |
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author | Pozzi, Gino Frustaci, Alessandra Tedeschi, Daniela Solaroli, Silvia Grandinetti, Paolo Di Nicola, Marco Janiri, Luigi |
author_facet | Pozzi, Gino Frustaci, Alessandra Tedeschi, Daniela Solaroli, Silvia Grandinetti, Paolo Di Nicola, Marco Janiri, Luigi |
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description | BACKGROUND: The relationship between coping styles and mental disorders has received considerable attention and instruments have been developed to assess coping strategies. The measurement by means of category systems has been criticized and a functional hierarchy of action types linked to the adaptive processes is preferred. We aimed to determine which factors may exist within the Brief-COPE (Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced – COPE – Inventory) in an Italian sample of patients with anxiety disorders; and if these factors correlate with the severity of psychopathology or with other characteristics. METHODS: A total sample of 148 patients was recruited. The Brief-COPE inventory, the Symptom Check List 90-Revised, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire, the Zung Anxiety Status Inventory and the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale were administered. RESULTS: Factor analysis of the Brief-COPE yielded nine factors accounting for 65.48% of the variance. Patients scored higher on Searching Support, followed by Acceptance, Changing Perspective, and Problem Solving. Associations between measures of psychopathology and factors of coping strategies, mostly Searching support and Avoidance, were found. CONCLUSIONS: Data of the present study support a nine-factor structure of the Brief-COPE that includes five broad dimensions of coping. Psychopathology was mostly related to Searching support and Avoidance factors, showing that these strategies may reflect ineffective ways of coping; Problem solving and Changing perspective could be a valid approach to moderate anxiety/depression symptoms and psychopathology in general. |
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spelling | pubmed-45590162015-09-09 Coping strategies in a sample of anxiety patients: factorial analysis and associations with psychopathology Pozzi, Gino Frustaci, Alessandra Tedeschi, Daniela Solaroli, Silvia Grandinetti, Paolo Di Nicola, Marco Janiri, Luigi Brain Behav Original Research BACKGROUND: The relationship between coping styles and mental disorders has received considerable attention and instruments have been developed to assess coping strategies. The measurement by means of category systems has been criticized and a functional hierarchy of action types linked to the adaptive processes is preferred. We aimed to determine which factors may exist within the Brief-COPE (Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced – COPE – Inventory) in an Italian sample of patients with anxiety disorders; and if these factors correlate with the severity of psychopathology or with other characteristics. METHODS: A total sample of 148 patients was recruited. The Brief-COPE inventory, the Symptom Check List 90-Revised, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire, the Zung Anxiety Status Inventory and the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale were administered. RESULTS: Factor analysis of the Brief-COPE yielded nine factors accounting for 65.48% of the variance. Patients scored higher on Searching Support, followed by Acceptance, Changing Perspective, and Problem Solving. Associations between measures of psychopathology and factors of coping strategies, mostly Searching support and Avoidance, were found. CONCLUSIONS: Data of the present study support a nine-factor structure of the Brief-COPE that includes five broad dimensions of coping. Psychopathology was mostly related to Searching support and Avoidance factors, showing that these strategies may reflect ineffective ways of coping; Problem solving and Changing perspective could be a valid approach to moderate anxiety/depression symptoms and psychopathology in general. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015-08 2015-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4559016/ /pubmed/26356192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.351 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Brain and Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of theCreative Commons AttributionLicense, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Pozzi, Gino Frustaci, Alessandra Tedeschi, Daniela Solaroli, Silvia Grandinetti, Paolo Di Nicola, Marco Janiri, Luigi Coping strategies in a sample of anxiety patients: factorial analysis and associations with psychopathology |
title | Coping strategies in a sample of anxiety patients: factorial analysis and associations with psychopathology |
title_full | Coping strategies in a sample of anxiety patients: factorial analysis and associations with psychopathology |
title_fullStr | Coping strategies in a sample of anxiety patients: factorial analysis and associations with psychopathology |
title_full_unstemmed | Coping strategies in a sample of anxiety patients: factorial analysis and associations with psychopathology |
title_short | Coping strategies in a sample of anxiety patients: factorial analysis and associations with psychopathology |
title_sort | coping strategies in a sample of anxiety patients: factorial analysis and associations with psychopathology |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4559016/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26356192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.351 |
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