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Coping with accidental injury.

U F Malt1

  • 1Department of Psychosomatic and Behavioral Medicine, National Hospital, University of Oslo.

Psychiatric Medicine
|January 1, 1992
PubMed
Summary

This study on injury recovery found that coping styles, especially emotion-focused coping, are linked to psychological health, not injury severity. Specific coping strategies accurately predicted negative outcomes in trauma patients.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Trauma Studies
  • Health Psychology

Background:

  • Coping mechanisms are crucial for individuals navigating physical trauma.
  • Understanding the relationship between coping styles and psychological outcomes post-injury is vital.
  • Previous research has explored coping in chronic illness, but less is known about acute physical trauma.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate coping styles and perceptual defense in adult males following accidental injury.
  • To assess the stability of coping styles over time and their correlation with psychopathology and injury severity.
  • To identify specific coping efforts that predict short- and long-term negative consequences.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study of 20 adult males post-accidental injury.
  • Utilized clinical psychiatric/surgical exams, Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale, Ways of Coping Checklist, Impact of Event Scale, Basic Character Inventory, Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale, State Anxiety Inventory, and Defense Mechanism Test.
  • Assessed participants during hospital stay and 28 months later.

Main Results:

  • Emotion-focused coping styles correlated more strongly with underlying psychopathology than injury severity.
  • Coping styles remained stable and did not correlate with perceptual defense, anxiety, personality traits, or PTSD symptoms.
  • Six specific coping efforts predicted negative consequences with 100% specificity and positive predictive power.

Conclusions:

  • Somatization after physical trauma may be better explained by personal meaning rather than a "fright-model" of PTSD.
  • Coping styles are significant predictors of recovery trajectories following physical trauma.
  • Emotion-focused coping is closely linked to pre-existing psychological factors in trauma survivors.

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