Coping strategies and their correlates with depression in the Japanese general population

Nagase, Yukihiro; Uchiyama, Makoto; Kaneita, Yoshitaka; Li, Lan; Kaji, Tatsuhiko; Takahashi, Sakae; Konno, Michiko; Mishima, Kazuo; Nishikawa, Toru; Ohida, Takashi

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2008.03.024

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“…Nagase and colleagues (2009) showed that the prevalence of a problem-solving strategy is not different between genders. However various types of gender differences were found with respect to the prevalence of emotion-focused and avoidant strategies 36) . Several previous studies have shown that depression was associated positively with avoidant strategies but negatively with problem-solving strategies in both genders.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation and Depressive Symptoms among Middle-aged Workers in Japan

Sugawara¹,

Yasui‐Furukori²,

Sasaki³

et al. 2013

Ind Health

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The purpose of this study was to assess middle-aged Japanese workers for possible gender differences in the risk factors associated with depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation. 5,878 workers (40-60 yr of age) (3,631 males and 2,247 females) were recruited from randomly selected companies in northern Japan. Demographic and lifestyle factors, suicidal ideation rate, and the data for the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies for Depression scale (CES-D) were obtained from the self-report questionnaires. After adjusting for possible confounding variables, marital status, absent of stress reduction technique and low job compatibility were significant independent risk factors for suicidal ideation among males. In females, marital status, feeling of insufficient sleep and absence of stress reduction techniques were significant independent risk factors after adjusting for all variables. Under the same adjustments, temporary employment also showed a protective effect against female suicidal ideation. In conclusion, our results suggest that factors related to suicidal ideation differed by gender. Different approaches for each gender might be useful in the development of suicide prevention programs. However, interpretation of work-related effects, such as temporary employment, interpersonal conflict and transportation industry, was hampered by lack of data concerning personal income, working hours and organizational commitment. Additional studies are needed to examine the longitudinal relationships between the risk factors associated with suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms.

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confidence: 99%

Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation and Depressive Symptoms among Middle-aged Workers in Japan

Sugawara¹,

Yasui‐Furukori²,

Sasaki³

et al. 2013

Ind Health

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“…In this study, data for the participants who chose 14th item (N = 4939; 7% of total participants) were excluded from further analyses specifically regarding coping behaviors. In the current study, we decided to categorize responses based on a classification method used in prior studies, as mentioned in the introduction (Compas et al, 2001;Nagase et al, 2009;Wilson et al, 2005): a problemsolving coping strategy refers to an individual's active planning and striving to change the environment of stress; an emotional distraction strategy refers to an individual's attempt to reduce the negative emotion caused by stressful events; an avoidance strategy refers to an individual's attempts to separate from the source of stress. We decided to further divide emotional distraction strategy into two categories, healthy or unhealthy, to distinguish substance use from other coping behaviors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Previous studies investigating coping strategies and their associations with suicidal ideation have used either broad categories of coping strategies or specific coping behaviors for analyzing and interpreting data. Although the categorizations of coping strategies used in various studies have been inconsistent, one widely used, broad categorization uses three categories of problem-solving, emotion distraction, and avoidance coping strategies (Compas, Connor-Smith, Saltzman, Thomsen, & Wadsworth, 2001;Nagase et al, 2009;Wilson, Pritchard, & Revalee, 2005). A problem-solving coping strategy is defined as an individual's active planning and efforts to change the environment of psychological stress.…”

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Gender differences in adolescent coping behaviors and suicidal ideation: findings from a sample of 73,238 adolescents

Kim

Han

Trksak

et al. 2014

Anxiety, Stress, & Coping

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Suicide among adolescents is an emerging global public health problem as well as a socioeconomic problem. Stress-coping strategies have been shown to be associated with suicidal ideation. We examined coping behaviors related to suicidal ideation and gender differences in adolescents using the data from the 2010 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey (ages 12-19 years; N = 73,238). Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate associations between suicidal ideation and specific coping behaviors while controlling for potentially confounding variables. In both male and female groups, the coping behavior "drinking alcoholic beverages" and "smoking cigarettes" were positively associated with suicidal ideation. "Watching TV," "playing online/mobile games," and "sleeping" were negatively associated with suicidal ideation in both groups. In males, "engaging in sports" was negatively related to suicidal ideation. In females, "venting by talking to others" and "eating" were negatively related to suicidal ideation. The results indicate that there are gender differences in the effects of coping behaviors on adolescent suicidal ideation, and that developing adaptive coping strategies may function to reduce suicidality. Future studies are needed to examine whether improving coping skills can reduce suicidal ideation in a gender-specific manner.

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“…Avoidance coping, such as denying a problem, resigning oneself to it, or venting one's emotions, is generally associated with negative psychological outcomes (Ben-Zur, 2009;Nagase et al, 2009), including increased depressive symptoms (Penley et al, 2002).…”

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Life stressors and resources and the 23-year course of depression

Cronkite¹,

Woodhead²,

Finlay³

et al. 2013

Journal of Affective Disorders

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Coping strategies and their correlates with depression in the Japanese general population

Cited by 76 publications

References 38 publications

Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation and Depressive Symptoms among Middle-aged Workers in Japan

Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation and Depressive Symptoms among Middle-aged Workers in Japan

Gender differences in adolescent coping behaviors and suicidal ideation: findings from a sample of 73,238 adolescents

Life stressors and resources and the 23-year course of depression

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