Relationship between coping with negative life-events and psychopathology: Major depression and borderline personality disorder
Authors: Wingenfeld, Katja1; Mensebach, Christoph2; Rullkoetter, Nina2; Schlosser, Nicole2; Schaffrath, Camille2; Beblo, Thomas2; Driessen, Martin2
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 82, Number 4, December 2009 , pp. 421-425(5)
Publisher: British Psychological Society
Abstract:
Ninety psychiatric in-patients and 73 controls have been asked about their coping styles to negative life-events. Patients reported more emotion-oriented coping than controls. Emotion-oriented coping style was positively correlated with psychopathology, while task-oriented coping was negatively correlated with psychopathology in events which the participants had difficulties dealing with.Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1348/147608309X452416
Affiliations: 1: Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 2: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Ev. Hospital Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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