Correlates of Coping Style in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
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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.
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Other studies did not find differences in coping strategies of people with multiple sclerosis in accordance with their level of physical disability.
“Nevertheless, other studies did not find differences in coping strategies of pwMS in accordance with their level of physical disability [19,29,30,31].”
From Coping strategies and their impact on quality of life and physical disability of people with multiple sclerosis (2021) · cites this paper as [29]
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- Authors
- Beatty, W. W., Hames, K. A., Blanco, C. R., Williamson, S. J., Wilbanks, S. L., & Olson, K. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (US)
- Venue
- Multiple Sclerosis Journal
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1998-10
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 440-443
- ISSN
- 1352-4585 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-0970
- OpenAlex
- W2099703421
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 0.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Multiple Sclerosis Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Problem Solving Skills Development
- Keywords
- multiple sclerosis, coping styles, stress coping, problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, psychological distress, vocabulary
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Disability Evaluation, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Multiple Sclerosis, Problem Solving, Severity of Illness Index, Stress, Psychological
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