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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Coping response"”.
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Family caregiving: family strains, coping response patterns, and caregiver burden
… multiple strains of caregiving families, their coping patterns, and positive as well as negative aspects of caregiving. The primary objective was to examine the relationship among caregiving strains, patterns of coping responses employed, and the resulting objective and subjective burden. A …
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Electrodermal and cardiovascular activity in psychopathy : indicants of a coping response
… subjects' heartrates (HR) and skin conductance responses (SCR) have been measured during a countdown prior to the onset of an aversive stimulus. During the countdown, psychopaths have been found to display accelerated HR accompanied by small increases in SC while non-psychopaths have shown less …
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An Identification of Hope Level and Frequency of Coping Response Among Hospitalized Post-myocardial Infarction Patients
… and requires many adjustments which can affect coping. Nursing literature has identified a correlation between high levels of hope and positive coping methods in other patient populations. Nurses as facilitators of hope have been interested in understanding the impact of hope and coping …
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A sacred kind of strength? : the role of Catholic religious practices as a coping response to adversity
… role of four Catholic religious practices as a coping response to adversity. A qualitative mode of inquiry was employed and data was collected using semistructured interviews. Five participants, aged between 35 and 69 years old were recruited for participation in this study. Data from the …
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Soy El Primero: First-Generation Latino/a College Students' Experiences of Acculturative Stress and Coping Response in College
… attending PWIs, as well as their subsequent coping responses to this stress. Study findings revealed several on- and off-campus causes of acculturative stress and several coping responses, some of which were more successful than others. Recommendation for PWI policy and practices are offered.
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Group treatment for female incest survivors using TFA Systems™
… Systems™. Specifically this study examined the coping response behavior patterns of adult survivors in situations of perceived victimization. During stage one of the treatment program, clients presented situations in which they had perceived themselves to have been in the victim role. Each …
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Relationships of cognitive appraisal
… has been identified in determining the stress response and coping response. Researchers have shown specific physiological outcomes of initial cognitive appraisals that are taken more as a threat or a challenge. Cognitive appraisal is known to fluctuate, but little is known about what influences …
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Social Information Processing Deficits, Intimate Partner Violence, and Coercive Control in Dating Couples
… attitudes and attributions, goal setting, coping response generation, and coping response selection. I used Dutton and Goodman’s (2006) theorized model of coercive control, which included assessing demands, surveillance, threats, and victims’ responses to demands. I hypothesized that (a) …
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Anger and Alcohol Use: A Model of Coping Styles, Alcohol Expectancies and the Experience and Expression of Anger
… between anger experience and expression, coping styles, and expectancies regarding the effects of alcohol in a young male population. Anger experience and expression was measured using the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory, coping styles were assessed using the Coping Response …
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Strain, coping, and adaptation in early adolescence
Role strain, coping, and adaptational outcomes were examined for a sample of 205 eighth grade adolescents. Differences by gender and family type on amount of role strain, use of coping strategies, and levels of emotional stress and well-being in family and peer roles were identified. Results …
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Coping responses and psychological resources as mediators in the stress process for dual-career women
… between sources (role strain), mediators (coping responses, psychological resources of self-esteem and low self-denigration, number and age of children), and outcome (feelings associated with role strains) was quantitatively assessed via factor analysis to determine the efficacy of …
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Understanding How African-American Middle School Students Cope with Peer Victimization: A Mixed-Methods Approach
… that inhibit and promote the use of prosocial coping strategies. In a previous study, participants had been categorized into four social clusters: well-adjusted, rejected, passively-victimized, or aggressively-victimized based on a cluster analysis of self-reported psychosocial variables. …
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A cross-cultural study on the persuasive effectiveness of fear appeals messages in advertising : an empirical investigation on Canadian and Chinese subjects
… to change attitude for the two cultural groups. Coping response efficacy was effective in changing attitudes for the Canadian subjects, while severity had more influence for the Chinese subjects. Fear-persuasion models for the Canadians and Chinese were proposed.
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Adjustment to Childhood Chronic Illness: Prediction of Psychological Adjustment with an Investigation into Spiritual Coping
… addition to the approach-avoidance paradigm of coping response. Twenty-two children diagnosed with either cancer or sickle cell disease were interviewed, along with their mothers, regarding psychosocial adjustment and typical approaches to coping with stressors. Children completed depression, …
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Testing A Social-Cognitive Model of Intimate Abusiveness Among Substance Dependent Males
… partner-related attribution measures as well as coping response measures indicating how they would interpret and handle five ambiguous vignettes involving their partner. It was hypothesized that violent men would attribute greater negative intent and responsibility to their partner and that they …
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Workload Transitions and Stress: Changes Over Time
… may affect the operators' state of stress and coping behaviors but previous research has not conclusively demonstrated the nature of those. The first goal of the current work was to investigate the discrepant findings of the previous literature. Two experiments were conducted where participants …
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Continual exposure to trauma in the emergency services: an investigation into the psychological effects on new recruits
… use of positive reinterpretation and growth as a coping response to trauma increased significantly within the group of trainees. No significant differences were found in the measures of the untreated control group, indicating that the findings from the trainees were likely to be attributable to …
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The influence of the trait-like tendency to rely on declarative- or procedural- like memory systems on the development of habits and compulsive behaviours in the rat
… place or a procedural-like, egocentric response spatial learning strategy, a “direct opposition” probe can reveal which strategy any individual relies on to solve the task. The distinction among declarative and procedural memory parallels, but is not identical to, the distinction among …
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Stress and selective attention : the impact of a stressful challenge on mood, cortisol, and the processing of emotional information
… and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) response to stress. It was hypothesized that participants would selectively attend to negative words (study 1) and pictures (study 2) following an aversive stressful experience, and that the attentional response to stress would mediate mood and HPA …
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Ambulatory assessment of physiological arousal, emotion, and alcohol use
… moderate to high for number of skin conductance responses per minute. Skin conductance level was less consistent across measures. With regard to ambulatory findings, high negative affect and high arousal states during the day were generally related to decreased likelihood of same-day drinking and …
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