More adaptive versus less maladaptive coping: What is more predictive of symptom severity? Development of a new scale to investigate coping profiles across different psychopathological syndromes

Moritz, Steffen; Jahns, Anna Katharina; Schröder, Johanna; Berger, Thomas; Lincoln, Tania M.; Klein, Jan Philipp; Göritz, Anja S.

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2015.11.027

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“…However, results suggest that defeatism coping behaviors (such as substance use and denial) may be an important mediator in the relationship between resilient mental functioning and five of the six psychological well-being outcomes (environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations, purpose in life, and self-acceptance). These results support the findings of Moritz et al (2016) who reported a relationship between maladaptive coping behaviors and psychopathology. Moritz et al also acknowledged that it is not only the increase of active coping behaviors that could benefit psychological well-being but also the decrease in maladaptive coping behaviors.…”

Section: Mediating Effects Of Coping Behaviorssupporting

confidence: 91%

Psychological Well-being and Coping: the Predictive Value of Adult Attachment, Dispositional Mindfulness, and Emotion Regulation

2018

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The primary aim of this study was to examine the underlying relationship between adult attachment, dispositional mindfulness, and emotion regulation, and investigate how well these constructs can predict coping and well-being. A university sample of participants (n = 174) completed an online survey to assess attachment (anxiety, avoidance, disorganized), emotion regulation, dispositional mindfulness, coping behaviors, and psychological well-being. Exploratory factor analysis assessed the underlying relationship between measures of attachment, emotion regulation, and mindfulness, and presented a two-factor solution accounting for 47% of total variance across participant scores. Attachment, mindfulness, and emotion regulation subscales differentially loaded across the two factors. The first factor, Bresilient mental functioning,^accounted for 33% of variance; the second factor, Bdisorganized emotional functioning,^accounted for 14% of total variance. These two extracted factors were used in subsequent mediation modeling to determine the effects of coping behaviors on the relationship between the extracted factors and six subscales of psychological well-being. Mediation analyses revealed that defeatism coping was a significant mediator in the relationship between resilient mental functioning and five of the psychological well-being scales and between disorganized emotional functioning and all six of these scales. The results add to the current understanding of the relationship between all three constructs and are the first to examine the construct of adult disorganized attachment and its possible role in the relationship between adult attachment and dispositional mindfulness, as well as its influence on emotion regulation.

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confidence: 91%

Psychological Well-being and Coping: the Predictive Value of Adult Attachment, Dispositional Mindfulness, and Emotion Regulation

2018

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“…For example, the three domains of coping described refer to specific types of engagement and disengagement coping, but are not inherently classified as adaptive or maladaptive forms of responding to stress. Some studies indicate that adaptive strategies for stress include behaviors such as problem-solving and social support (Chua et al 2015), or relaxation and acceptance (Moritz et al 2016), while maladaptive coping behaviors include rumination, denying the situation, engaging in distracting activities (Chua et al 2015; Moritz et al 2016) and engaging in behavioral avoidance through emotional discharge like yelling to let off steam (Elliot et al 2011). In these studies, however, there have been exceptions where strategies assumed to be maladaptive (i.e., keeping emotional reactions inside) have been associated with resilience, indicating that further research is needed to determine the circumstances under which problem-focused, positive emotion-focused, and negative emotion-focused coping are adaptive vs. maladaptive.…”

Section: The Effects Of Trauma On Coping Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Associations Between Trauma Type, Timing, and Accumulation on Current Coping Behaviors in Adolescents: Results from a Large, Population-based Sample

Vaughn‐Coaxum

Yan

Kiely

et al. 2017

J Youth Adolescence

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The development of adolescents’ coping in response to stress is critical for adaptive functioning; these coping strategies may be shaped by numerous environmental factors during childhood, including experiences such as exposure to trauma. Childhood trauma has been shown to undermine contemporaneous coping, but how does a history of exposure to trauma and the characteristics of that trauma (type, timing, and accumulation) relate to current coping among adolescents? We addressed this question using a nationally-representative sample of 9427 adolescents (ages 13–18; 48.9% female; 66% White). Adolescents reported on their lifetime exposure to 18 different traumas, including witnessing or experiencing interpersonal violence, accidents, disasters, and violent or accidental loss of loved ones, as well as their current use of coping behaviors when under stress (problem-focused, positive emotion-focused, and negative emotion-focused coping strategies). The study’s results highlight that exposure to nearly all forms of trauma was unrelated to problem-focused and positive emotion-focused coping behaviors, but strongly associated with increased negative emotion-focused coping. Use of each coping style did not vary with age at first exposure to trauma, but increased with the number of lifetime traumatic events experienced. The findings suggest that the extent of prior exposure to trauma, including variations across type and timing, may be related to a particular form of coping that has been linked to increased risk for mental health problems. Study results highlight coping strategies as a potential target for prevention and treatment efforts, and indicate a need to better understand the malleability and trajectory of coping responses to stress for promoting healthy youth development.

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“…Prior cross‐sectional studies that assessed ER with questionnaires in non‐clinical controls have shown that subclinical paranoia is associated with the use of maladaptive ER strategies (thought suppression: Jones & Fernyhough, ; general maladaptive coping: Moritz et al ., ; impulse control difficulties: Westermann & Lincoln, ). In line with these findings, patients with psychosis were found to present more maladaptive ER strategies in comparison with controls (Moritz et al ., ).…”

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Expressive suppression is associated with state paranoia in psychosis: An experience sampling study on the association between adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and paranoia

Nittel

Lincoln

Lamster

et al. 2018

British J Clinic Psychol

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Maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and more pronounced instability of negative emotions are relevant to paranoia in patients with psychosis and should be a special focus of CBTp interventions. Future interventions designed for patients suffering from paranoia should promote coping with unstable negative emotions and replacing or reducing maladaptive emotion regulation strategies with adaptive ones.

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More adaptive versus less maladaptive coping: What is more predictive of symptom severity? Development of a new scale to investigate coping profiles across different psychopathological syndromes

Cited by 77 publications

References 54 publications

Psychological Well-being and Coping: the Predictive Value of Adult Attachment, Dispositional Mindfulness, and Emotion Regulation

Psychological Well-being and Coping: the Predictive Value of Adult Attachment, Dispositional Mindfulness, and Emotion Regulation

Associations Between Trauma Type, Timing, and Accumulation on Current Coping Behaviors in Adolescents: Results from a Large, Population-based Sample

Expressive suppression is associated with state paranoia in psychosis: An experience sampling study on the association between adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and paranoia

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