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Coping Under Extreme Conditions: Do Coping Dispositions Matter.

Marija Eterović¹, Dijana Lucijanić, Matija Kranjčević

¹Department of Psychiatry, Referral Centre for Stress Related Disorders of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.

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Dispositional coping styles significantly predict how individuals cope with potentially traumatic events (PTEs). These ingrained coping strategies, like venting emotions, are more influential on psychological distress than situational responses.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Trauma Studies
Stress and Coping Research

Background:

Coping dispositions, or ingrained ways of handling stress, have been understudied in predicting responses to potentially traumatic events (PTEs).
Understanding how pre-existing coping styles influence situational coping is crucial for mental health interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the extent to which dispositional coping predicts situational coping with PTEs.
To examine the relationship between dispositional coping styles and psychological distress.

Main Methods:

A study involving 103 mountain rescuers assessing their dispositional coping strategies.
Correlational analysis to determine the predictive power of dispositional coping on coping with their last PTE and global psychological distress.

Main Results:

Dispositional venting of emotions and religious coping explained over 50% of the variance in similar situational coping.
Most dispositional coping styles predicted 30-40% of variance in comparable situational coping, with denial being an exception.
Dispositional coping was a stronger predictor of global psychological distress than situational coping, explaining approximately 25% of the variance.

Conclusions:

Dispositional coping styles significantly influence coping with PTEs, though the impact varies by style.
Individual differences in dispositional coping are highly relevant to psychological distress following traumatic events.