THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH AND COPING STRATEGIES IN CITIZENSHIP OF KHORAMABAD CITY
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All people experience problems and stressors in their lives and shuld find proper mechanisms to cope with these difficulties. These stressors range from the every day, mundane to the more significant and serious such as job layoffs and illnesses. How people cope with stress varies from person to person and from situation to situation. Even as a particular situation progresses , the strategies used by one individual may change and evolve. This study examined the relationship between mental health and coping styles. The aim of the research was to explain the mental health and their subscales (Anxiety, Depression, Social function and Physical disorder) according to problem and emotional focused coping styles. Methods and Materials: Participants were 383 citizenship of Khoramabad aged 25 to 54. All participants were asked to complete the coping style scale (CSS) and the mental health scale. Analysis of data involved both descriptive and inferential statistics including means, standard deviations, Pearson's correction coefficients and regression analyses. Results: The results suggested that there is significant relationship between mental health and coping style. Problem solving coping style increases the levels of mental health. Emotional coping style decreases mental health because increasing psychological distress (Anxiety, depression, physical disorder and social function disorder). Discussion: The findings of this research indicates that the coping styles with problem influences health psychology (physical, psychological, social). The emotional coping style decrease health mental and problem oriented coping style increase thatKeywords:
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LITERATURE REVIEW
Stress and coping are some of the most widely studied phenomena in psychology today.
Several important theories concerning stress, resilience, and coping have been postulated.
Careful review of the literature in this area suggests that firstly stress is a heterogeneous set of
environmental situations or events which can be classified and which require different
responses and result in different effects; secondly a relationship between types of stress, levels
of perceived control, styles of coping and measures of well-being or maladjustment exists.
Further review of research concerning the link between mental illness and coping strategies
reveals that adults and adolescents at risk of, or currently suffering from depression or anxiety
are more likely to use less problem-focused coping and more emotion-focused coping. It is
suggested that conduct disordered adolescents are more likely to have experienced chronic
severe stress and therefore use more emotion-focused coping responses. Further research is
necessary, linking coping responses of conduct disordered adolescents with different types of
stress, and differentiating between pure and comorbid conduct disordered youth.
EMPIRICAL STUDY
It has been suggested that reacting to a chronic severe stressor with avoidance, particularly
behavioural avoidance coping responses is adaptive, and that a background of chronic severe
stress leads to low resilience and a low level of approach coping skills. Residents (N=50) of a
youth detention centre completed the Coping Responses Inventory — Youth (CRI-Y) and the
Adolescent Psychopathology Scale (APS) , and 61 students from state schools completed only
the CRI-Y. As expected, residents used more avoidant coping, more behavioural coping, and
less approach coping than controls. Most of the stressors reported by residents were chronic
and severe (98%), as compared to 6.5% of controls' stressors. As many as 57% of Ashley
participants scored positive for at least one emotional disorder and they used less behavioural
approach coping strategies than those suffering from conduct disorder only. It is suggested
that the adaptiveness of avoidant coping as a reaction to chronic severe stress must be
recognised and that specialised coping programs could help address low approach coping
abilities in this group.
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