State and trait anxiety theory and assessment are reviewed. The person (trait anxiety) and
the situation are important in determining levels of state anxiety. The facet of trait anxiety and …

Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in how personality affects the stress
process. This paper reports on a broad spectrum of findings on the relationships between …

Several ways in which leisure can help people cope with stress have been proposed and
studied, but a comprehensive set of leisure stress-coping types or dimensions has not been …

The purpose of the present article is to provide unification to a number of somewhat
disparate themes in the chronic pain and phobia literature. First, we present a summary …

O objetivo do estudo foi investigar a estrutura fatorial da Escala Modos de Enfrentamento de
Problemas-EMEP, na versão adaptada para a população brasileira por Gimenes e Queiroz …

Infertility is a stressor that affects both husbands and wives. The literature suggests that
infertility is more stressful for women, although most studies have not included …

The ability to cope with competitive stress is an integral part of elite sport performance. The
purposes of this investigation were to identify and examine players' perceptions of sources …

A new measure of coping, the Pain Coping Questionnaire (PCQ), is presented and validated
in two studies of children and adolescents. Factor analyses of data from healthy children and …

Cerebral stroke causes a significant worsening of health-related quality of life. This review
was conducted on studies investigating whether the levels of quality of life were influenced …

Current conceptions relating psychological variables to health recognize the key role of
coping processes as mediating variables between stress and illness, yet few reliable and …